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School For Scandal

Harriet Waugh A PRIVATE PLACE by Amanda Craig Hutchinson, f13.99, pp. 246 A manda Craig's second novel A Pri- vate Place is set in a progressive co- educational school strongly......

Pretty Bubbles In The Air

Francis King A LANDING ON THE SUN by Michael Frayn Viking, f14.99, pp. 249 S ince Harold Wilson was as full of gimmicky wheezes as a freshly poured Pepsi of bubbles, it is in no......

Acid Reign

motored homeward with the crowd That sits on tails and queues up hills When all at once, — I cried aloud Another slab of daffodils; Despite the salt, beneath the trees, Where'er......