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A Happy Surprise

Tom Hiney ENGLISH WEATHER by Neil Ferguson Gollancz Originals, £9.99, pp. 319 S tranded at a railway station, few people in their right mind would head for the Con- temporary......

I Think I'll Be Clever For Ever And Ever

Anthony Storr THE AGE OF HERESY: YOU CAN ACHIEVE MORE, NOT LESS, AS YOU GET OLDER by Tony Buzan and Raymond Keene Ebuly Press, £12.99, pp. 184 n the 1940s, educational......

Words Fail Him

Craig Brown CHANGING TRAINS by Steven Norris Hutchinson, £16.77, pp. 273 I am told that the sales reps were hawk- ing this book with the promise that it would be the next Alan......