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Two Very Different Islands

Diana Hendry MISS RANSKILL COMES HOME by Barbara Euphan Todd Persephone Books, 170, pp. 330, ISBN 1903155363 R eviewirig this novel in 1946, when it was first published,......

Old-style Irish Enterprise

Patrick Skene Catling LEAVES FROM THE FIG TREE by Diana Duff Summersdale Travel, £7.99, pp. 318, ISBN 1840243635 1 rishness is perceptible almost everywhere, if you look with......

A Man Who Asked The Right Questions

Jane Rye LONDON RECORDINGS by David Sylvester Chalk), £22, pp. 202, ISBN 0701162678 D avid Sylvester's first ambition was to be a professional cricketer, and he possessed to the......