18 DECEMBER 1999, page 74

A View From New York

Diane Peck THE ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL ELOISE, ELOISE IN PARIS, ELOISE AT CHRISTMASTIME, ELOISE IN MOSCOW by Kay Thompson, with drawings by Hilary Knight S ometime in the past few......

Unerring Bad Taste Anne Chisholm

SCANDAL by Amanda Platell Piatkus, £5.99, pp. 297 I t might perhaps be assumed that some- one with a track record like Amanda Platen's, an Australian who has edited the Sunday......

Making The Grade

Jonathan Cecil IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME by Michael Grade Macmillan, £20, pp. 432 I n 1973, when young Michael Grade became head of Light Entertainment at London......