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Archetypes

Benny Green The Greyfrlars Holiday Annual for 1978 (Howard Baker £4.50) Just when I was beginning to wonder if the moment might have passed for me to review the latest of the......

Ranging

peter Ackroyd „Refiner's Fire Mark Helprin (Hamish H amilton £5.95) It must have taken a great deal of selfa ssurance to complete this book; it's a first novel, it is extremely......

Selected Stories Sean O'faolain (constable £4.95)

Everything In the Garden Elizabeth North (Gollancz £4.75) Strangers Barbara Ewing (Heinemann £3.90) The Island Emperor Brian Priestley (Macmillan £3.50) 'Since he came to......