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People To Be Found

... People To Be Found Bv Joanna Cannan. (Gollancz 12s. 6d.) Joanna Cannan is a good example of the novelist who can move among her people giving each a point of view and an inner life, thus endowing the story with a balanced sympathy, and the reader with ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

MURDER INCLUDED

... MURDER INCLUDED. By Joanna Cannan. (Gollancz 8s. 6 d.) WHEN a novelist as truthful and skilled as Miss Joanna Cannan tackles a detective story, she is faced, I think, with certain special problems. It goes against the grain for her to employ trick ch ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Sir John Brown:

... and Voices by May Wedderburn Cannan, published by the Roundwood Press at Kineton, is the straightforward autobiography of a girl brought up in the Edwardian luxury of Oxford. She was one of the three daughters of Charles Cannan, Secretary to the Delegates ...

Published: Saturday 25 December 1976
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

NOVELS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

... delighted with it. I learned a few things about horsemanship myself.' - YOUNG ELIZABETHAN Illustrated 9s 6d. Gaze at the Moon Joanna Cannan 'Will find especial favour with pony lovers.' - THE TIMES EDUC. SUPPL. Illustrated, 9s 611. V ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1957
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 119 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

The John Wayne Story

... T SN L PR £2.00 i S )[# A T T 5 £2.80 - SRR e e S ST N R TR J Richard Church Claud Golding Robert Sinclair Tony lreson Joanna Cannan Esther Meynell lan Yarrow Bernard Wood H. Burton 2.30 4.50 2.50 2.30 2 00 2.00 2.00 2.30 2.00 2.30 2.00 3.00 1.50 1.50 ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1974
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

BOOKS WANTED

... BOOKS WANTED 4d. per word Minimum ss. Box Number 2s (includes postage on replies). Prepaid. “ANO’I’HER PONY FOR JEAN,” by Joanna Cannan. Collins, 14 St. James's Place. Please report copies in any condition to Mr. J. A. Ford. (8336) PROF. B. FARRINGTON, ‘*‘Science ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1950
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

WILKIE COLLINS: The Grandfather of Detective Fiction Writing

... home of lost causes and forsaken beliefs. Thus writes Joanna Cannan in the opening chapter of her racy contribution on OXFORDSHIRE to the popular County Series (Robert Hale. 18s.). Joanna Cannan knows her subject well, for she was born and brought up ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 845 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

Other

... P. G. Wodehouse. (Jenkins 9s. 6d.) YOUR SIAMESE CAT. By Hettie Gray Baker. (Verschoyle 12s. 6 d.) BODY IN THE BECK. By Joanna Cannan. (Gollancz 9s. 6 d.) Good detection. VENICE. THE LION AND THE PEACOCK. By Laurence Scarfe. (Hole 25s.) In every sense a ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 330 | Page: 10 | Tags: Other 

THE BOOKSELLER, FEBRUARY 18, 1978

... tragic fate indeed for a man who gave “travelling” as his reaeuionl”s in Who's Who. He died in b e Mrs. Farr, whose mother Joanna Cannan was Gilbert’s second cousin, excels in uncovering the mental, nervous and sexual adventures of this likeable character ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1978
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: 61 | Tags: none

FICTION OF THE WEEK

... landlady’s daughter. As in all these tales, conviction, ingenuity and glamour are uniquely matched. And All I Learned,” by Joanna Cannan (Gollancz ; ios. 6d.), also resumes old acquaintance, but on different lines. This is a study in exposure. Mildred, the ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1952
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 569 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

SICILIAN DEFENCE

... ; but the insufferable yet touching Harry is so lifelike that he seems to walk off the page. People May Be Found,” by Joanna Cannan (Gollancz ; 12s. 6d.), is a study in character and class-distinctions. Here the Baxters of Splasher’s End are working-class ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1956
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: 44 | Tags: none