Miles From Eden
A time like this - Seeing a youngish man, Say barely forty or not yet Fifty, get cut down — is to Know such a final thing, Complete, definitive, Cruel as Truth as She swings......
The Pure Pleasure Of Being Naughty
Juliet Townsend DON'T TELL THE GROWN-UPS: SUBVERSIVE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE by Alison Lurie Bloomsbury, f12.99, pp. 229 I t is E. Nesbit who points out that, in order to succeed......
Doing Well Out Of Doing Good
William Scammell A SORT OF CLOWNING by Richard Hoggart Chatto & Windus, f14.95, pp.225 R ichard Hoggart made his name with The Uses of Literacy (1957) and since then has risen,......
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Word
Mark Il lis VISITING CARDS by Francis King Constable, £1 1.95, pp.224 F rancis King, former President of PEN International, has written a novel about the President of WAA, the......