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The Snail's Antennae

Harriet Waugh The Daysman Stanley Middleton (Hutchinson £7.95) S tanley Middleton's immersion in the L./unexceptional humdrum lives of or- dinary middle-class English folk is......

Black Nightingale

Roy Kerridge Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole Edited by Ziggi Alexander and Audrey Dewjee (Falling Wall Press £7,50) w onderful indeed are the true......