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Japanese Pillow Pattern Books

ANTHONY BURGESS The lady novelist is a comparatively recent phenomenon in the West and still, despite the high examples of the Misses Austen, Cross, Brophy and Cartland, not......

Poet And Tragedian

HENRY TUBE Not Yet the Dodo and Other Verses No Coward (Heinemann 25s) Noel Coward, that bright' young pen of the 'twenties, was an early exponent of a modern European trend the......

The Lost Leader

AUBERON WAUGH Collected Stories I Muriel Spark (Macmillan 30s) Collected Poems 1 Muriel Spark (Macmillan 28s) Of all the talent and energy which has poured down the brain drain......