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England, Our England

Richard Ingrams FOREVER ENGLAND by Beryl Bainbridge Duckworth, f9.95 PEOPLE OF BRITAIN by Roy Kerridge Hale, £11.95 L ast year I took on the task of compil - ing an anthology......

Oasis

The terms of the analogy are strained— And that is as it should be, for the world Is nothing but the world and things are called By names they cannot answer to. Constrained By......

No Respite From The Struggle

Kathy Stephen A FRIEND FROM ENGLAND by Anita Brookner Cape, £9.95 ■fr A long, sustained battle has raged throughout Anita Brookner's fiction be- tween the forces of reason,......