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... Bogarde speaking And there was a much warmer embrace from the motherly Dilys Powell in the Sunday Times: ‘*‘He had, he says, thought of writing a book about his early childhood. The childhood indeed is there. But what emerges, struggling to flower, is ...

... Personally Speaking Amn reading Elizabeth Gaskell, by Winifred Gérin (£5-75, Oxford, 15th July) I found myself saying: “And to think I thought 1 knew about her and her works!” Like most people I knew she was the daughter of a Unitarian minister, William ...

... Speak, Memory A magical and beguiling account of a happy childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia. Long since out of print, the book has now been extensively rewritten and is illustrated for the first time. It is a fuller picture of the background which ...

... Personally Speaking A TaAames & HupsoN book I have been waiting for with impatience is with me now, and it has come up to my expectation, which equalled my impatience. Publication is 12th April. Wagner and His World by the literature director of the Arts ...

... Personally Speaking THERE is news of Graham Greene this week. He has edited, and given an epilogue to a book which its publisher, on an internal memorandum to staff, describes as ““Aduit Autobiography”. He couldn’t have thought of a better description ...

... Personally Speaking Ir originality of setting is the sort of thing likely to capture the attention of reviewers in 1976, then a lengthy (well over 200,000 words) novel I read in typescript over Christmas is likely to be starred in June. Called Green Hill ...

... Personally Speaking No prize is offered for guessing the identity of the man who ends his new book with the words: “I don’t know how I stand with the general public, but among my family and friends I have a solid dark reputation as an inveterate grumbler ...

... Personally Speaking HODDER—Coronet, Collins-Fontana, Hutchinson—-Arrow, Heinemann and Macmillan-Pan, W. H. Allen-Star, Cape Chatto Bodley Head-Granada, Weidenfeld—-Futura —the alliances of hardbackers with softcover firms goes on. With, perhaps, every ...

... Personally Speaking PENGUIN have a paperback, captivating in content, that will sell at £3-50. A long way from those 10 little books that Allen Lane offered nervously in 1935 at sixpence each, but when Shoulder to Shoulder arrives on 27th November it ...

... Personally Speaking A BOOK tipster takes an awful risk when he puffs a book that embraces things like faith, love, and a search for God. Over Easter I read a proof of The Garden of the Beloved, by Robert Way and illustrated quite beautifully by a young ...

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