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Facility And Felicity

Helen Osborne MURDERERS AND OTHER FRIENDS by John Mortimer Viking, f17, pp. 260 T here can't be a literary gent alive who owes as much to his father as John Mortimer. After......

She Had A Farm In Africa

Basil Davidson UNDER MY SKIN by Doris Lessing HarperCollins, £20, pp. 419 D oes anyone remember Southern Rhodesia? An echo of Cecil Rhodes and the Cape-to-Cairo `project' must......

Tame Middle-aged Spread

Ned Pakenham THE PLAYBOY BOOK: THE COMPLETE PICTORIAL HISTORY by Gretchen Edgren and Murray Fisher General Publishing Group USA, $45, pp. 368 I should say, at the beginning of......