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Giving Simplicity Unto The Wise

Christopher Howse THE PLAIN ENGLISH GUIDE by Martin Cutts OUP, £10.99, pp. 162 A nother thing. Every sentence needn't have a verb in. And you don't have to con- stantly worry......

A Miller's Tale

Helen Osborne PLAIN GIRL by Arthur Miller Methuen, £10, pp. 51 I DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE by Arthur Miller Minerva, £5.99, pp. 236 t's a rum old world. Just when you can buy a......

Granny Takes A Grip

Timothy Brittain Catlin VERA BRITTAIN: A LIFE by Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge Chatto, £25, pp. 581 S ome years ago, a romantic novelist called Hilary Bailey produced a......