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Did He Smile His Work To See?

John Bowen BUSTER KEATON: CUT TO THE CHASE by Marion Meade Bloomsbury, £20, pp. 440 H e was almost illiterate and partly deaf. He first appeared on stage at the age of five in......

Joy Still

confined Kate Grimond MY SILVER SHOES by Nell Dunn Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 207 4s he's had a rough night, poor cow,' were the final words of Nell Dunn's novel, Poor Cow, which......