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Overselling The Goods

Auberon Waugh Anna Apparent Nina Bawden (Longmarfs E2) As Miss Bawden's new novel is probably the last I shall ever review under the Longman imprint — the wretched firm intended......

Coming To Terms With Kipling

Simon Raven Rudyard Kipling: The Man, his Work and his World edited by John Gross (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £3.75) This new collection of essays about Rudyard Kipling covers his......

Wrong End Of The Telescope

George Gale Chronicles of Wasted Time: Vol 1: The Green Stick Malcolm Muggeridge (Collins £3.00) In August 1960 Malcolm Muggeridge visited Raymond's Revuebar, the striptease......