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The Mugging Of Noddy

Jeremy Lewis The Blyton Phenomenon Sheila Ray (An- dre Deutsch £10.95) W hat we should — and should not — allow children to read is one of those subjects on which even the......

Coarse-grained

Jo Grimond The Sporting World of R. S. Surtees John Welcome (Oxford £9.95) w hen the Anti-Blood Sport League has ensured that wild foxes have been exterminated in Southern......

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SEASIDE GARDENING by Mrs Kellaway. Write Box No: 253 SG. DANGEROUS SKIES (1954) by Air Com- modore A. E. Clouston. Box No 253SG. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch. Good price paid......