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A High Windowsill

P.J. Kavanagh The Orchid Trilogy Jocelyn Brooke (Seeker pp. 437, £9.95) Other books have dealt with the themes and the material of The Orchid Trilogy but none is at all like it.......

Toothless

Mark Amory Charles Charming's Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne Clive James (Cape pp. 103, £4.95). In Budd Schulberg's novel about Hollywood life, What Makes Sammy Run?, a......

Exile

Andrew Wilson Selected Stories Dan Davin (Robert Hale pp. 319, £6.95) Of all written forms (except perhaps the limerick) the short story is in the most danger of being made to......