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In Flight Three Novels

Peter Ackroyd The Poor Mouth Flann O'Brien (Hart-Davis McGibbon £2.75) Recovery John Barryman (Faber £2.50) Memoirs of a. Female Thief Dacia Maraini (Abelard-Schuman £2.95) If......

The Party That Exploded

Quentin Bell Poiret Palmer White (Studio Vista £6.95) "Corsets are quite exploded," exclaimed a fashion journal of the early nineteenth century. Other equally dramatic things......