28 AUGUST 1982, page 20

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Terence de Vere White Progress of Stories Laura Riding (Carcanet New Press £7.95) 1 — Nive in at the deep end: An island is all around an island. An island is all round the......

Realism

Richard Ingrams T recently observed in my so-called tele- vision column that A J. Wentworth, 14 ' F. Ellis's saga of a poor old Pre!, schoolmaster was one of the few 8 0 °'......