7 JANUARY 1989, page 29

Cinema

The Dressmaker ('15', Odeon Haymarket) Liverpool lass Hilary Mantel T his is Liverpool in 1944; Nellie, the dressmaker of the title, lives surrounded by her dead mother's......

Arts

Theatre Jolly good show Christopher Edwards The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Duchess) I n the Christmas issue I recommended, sight unseen, the Players' Theatre annual pantomime.......

Sale-rooms

Now is the time. . . Peter Watson calls on the auction houses to use some of their present bonanza to save the nation's heritage N ineteen eighty-eight was the year when both......