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Mumsy Chatter From Milton And Rose

Christopher Fildes T his book tells us what Milton and Rose Friedman did on their holidays. They went to Bangkok, where the people seemed very pleasant and decent. In the......

The Feel-good Factor

Anita Brookner A PATCHWORK PLANET by Anne Tyler Chatto, £15.99, pp. 288 O ne of Anne Tyler's earlier novels was entitled Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and it is......

A Selection Of Recent Paperbacks

Non-fiction: Longitude by Dava Sobel, 4th Estate, £5.99 The Last Governor by Jonathan Dimbleby, Warner, £9.99 The Origins of English Nonsense by Noel Malcolm, Fontana, £7.99 As......