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Going, Going, Gone

Jane Gardam RIVER BOY by Tim Bowler Oxford, £5.99, pp. 135 T he Carnegie Medal, the highest prize for children's fiction, has gone this year to an intense little book about the......

Seeing Through Glasses Darkly

Tony Gould THE STORY OF BLACK BRITAIN by Roy Kerridge The Claridge Press, £5.95, pp. 72 O n the back cover of this slender paperback is a quotation from Darcus Howe of Race......

The Pet That Failed

Nicholas Harman MY WARRIOR SON by Mary Anne Fitzgerald Michael Joseph, f16.99, pp. 341 P eter Lekerian was brought up in Nairobi's fearful sprawl of slums, and is Maasai, those......