5 DECEMBER 1970, page 62

Rosemary Sutcliff. Who Has Made A Quiet Corner In The

retelling of things past, snatches- us back to Norman England with . The Witch's Brat (Oxford University Press 16s), which tells how a humpbacked boy helps to found the hospital......

The Thief - Takers Peter John Stephens (harrap Historical...

Read- ers 30s) drops us back into the past: eight- eenth-century London and all that: crooked bounty-hunters and some real historical names like Sir John Fielding to plug the......