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Making With The Flash-bulb

Angela Huth MISADVENTURES by Sylvia Smith Canongate, £9.99, pp.248, ISBN 1841950955 F act: Sylvia Smith, unlike many who feel they have a book inside them, did not send a......

Seriously Furrowed Middle Brows

Hugh Massingberd READING GROUPS by Jenny Hartley OUP, 15.99, pp. 194, ISBN 0198187785 A few years ago I inadvertently joined what I suppose could be classified as a 'reading......

Grey Remembered Houses

Frederic Raphael A DOUBLE THREAD: A CHILDHOOD IN MILE END — AND BEYOND by John Gross Chatto, £18.99, pp. 189, ISBN 0701163305 h e 'double thread' of John Gross's title boasts of......