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ueron Waugh

.reb .reb joh ook I have enjoyed most this year was ()ill Mortimer's semi-autobiographical tatigine to the Wreckage (Weidenfeld). It sbseenllection of funny anecdotes and jovial e rvations such as one might hear from 14 Nertaining drunk in any saloon bar in kti,arld, purporting to give an account of tloi",,13°1e's life from his earliest time. I.do ly.'elieve a word of it, but thought it a jol- i4,!°0c1 read. The only other book that Eye d me was Patrick Marnham's Private me but I suspect Spectator readers head enough about that.