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Always Keep A Hold Of Nurse . • •

Francis King A LITTLE STRANGER by Candia Mc William Bloomsbury, £12.95, pp.135 stranger, outwardly unremarkable A and hardly remarked, enters a community, an office or a......

Kindlings

Girl, though you are beautiful, Take it in your stride: Just beyond your own back-door Up the mountain-side See for yourself how briefly beauty Justifies its pride. There the......

Why, Oh Why, Did He Ever Leave Ohio?

Patrick Skene Catling HOLIDAYS IN HELL by P.. J. O'Rourke Picador, £3.95, pp. 288 r Ee Wall Street Journal is partly to blame. They called P. J. O'Rourke 'the funniest writer in......