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... Speaking Gonnsv SMITH once wrote in the Sunday Times: “With 19 books under his belt, Kingsley Amis continues to astonish, ranging gaily from picturesque comedy to sexual satire, from poetry to parody, from forays into science-fiction to scholarly essays ...

... Speaking I wAS interested to meet this week another new publisher. Quite an old one this time, and based in Hong Kong. He is 65-year-old Derek Adkins, who was sent out to Hong Kong by the late Mark Longman to work with Longman (Hong Kong) Ltd. For the ...

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... Personally Speaking AN advance proof of Majesty: Elizabeth and the House of Windsor, by Robert Lacey (£5-45, Hutchinson, 3llst January), which fell into my hands, I'm glad to say, last week, carried a band wrapped round it that read: “All the material ...

... Personally Speaking ANDRE DEUTSCH's twice-yearly *“Newsletter” has been a favourite of mine for more years than the perennially young A.D. probably cares to remember. For the first half of his firm's 29th year the “Newsletter” needs 33 pages, with its ...

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... Personally Speaking ONB of Fleet Street’s top literary editors has written a book which, for anyone wanting to know what it was like to work in the theatre before the flicks came and spoilt it all, will be both a delight, and required reading. The book ...

... Personally Speaking D ENT have acquired a quite staggering book for publication on 30th April. The Berlin Bunker (£6-95) by James P. O’Donnell may well become a headliner in this country the way it has in Germany and France. It is about that sad shelter ...

... Personally Speaking BOOKS about Fleet Street and its environs are, on the whole, expendable. Of course, there will always be Philip Gibbs’s Street of Adventure; and C. E. Montague’s A Hind Let Loose is the sort of book one can return to again and again ...

... Personally Speaking 1F the sales of Turankhamen (Michael Joseph, Penguin) were anything to go by, exhibitions sell books. On 18th February the Constable Exhibition opens at the Tate Gallery, and from April to June, starting at the British Museum, we are ...