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A Truly Original Heroine

Harriet Waugh RUTH by Jeremy Cooper Hutchinson, £9.95 I t gives me particular pleasure to write about Ruth by Jeremy Cooper because when I first saw it I was a reader for......

Song Of The Married Woman

See, the clouds are travelling along towards the sunset, in no hurry, almost unemployed except for the times when they are pregnant with rain. Sometimes they look down on the......

Travel Pages

Where mules are swishing tails in olive-groves And stalls are redolent of thyme and cloves, Where hills are pine-clad and seas pure Turner With fishing smacks and nets, and a......

An Old Husband's Tale

Francis King GET OUT EARLY by Walter Allen Robert Hale, £9.95 0 f the melancholy literary truth `out of print, out of mind', Walter Allen pro- vides an obvious instance. There......