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Analysing Dickens

Bill Grundy The Reader's Guide to Charles Dickens Philip Hobsbaum (Thames and Hudson £2.00; pa perback, E1.00). I take it to be a sign of my complete lack of taste that I much......

Inside Vonnegut

Tony Palmer Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Cape £2.25) The Fatal Gift Alec Waugh (W. H. Allen £2.50) Breakfast of Champions might be a blueprint for the......

Bill Platypus's

Paperbacks A ponderous but intriguing selection this week. The first, a Methuen University Paperback (a grandiose and not necessarily accurate title), is Andrew Boyd's Fifteen......