... 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 ...

... 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 BEING attacked by a virulent bug can bring its compensations. There was no urgency about my reading, no deadlines in Dyott Street, and I found myself remembering a much earlier period in bed, some time after the first war, when I coined ...

... Personally Speaking THE world of letters had more than its fair share of deaths in 1978, and there were a number of us who most deeply mourned John Pudney. He worked to the end, dedicated professional that he was, and the last book from his able pen will ...

... Personally Speaking Fnom a small hotel on the edge of Lake Windermere a book is coming with Macdonald & Jane’s imprint that will, I predict, be hailed as a—fo?ive me—carrier of good news for food addicts in and out of the kitchen. The author is John Tovey ...

... Personally Speaking LIKE the first world war, Hollywood is becoming something of a myth. Who now remembers Louis B. Mayer, Ford Sterling, D. W. Griffith (apart from his “Birth of a Nation™), and Irving Thalberg ? Or the Keystone Cops, Mack Sennett, Roscoe ...

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... Personally Speaking Poon.nso Press of Knocksedan House, Swords, Co. Dublin, have had a good idea. Ireland, once the home of shamrocks, Guinness, horses, the gift of the gab and “‘the island of saints and scholars”, is now, they realise, also the Island ...

... Personally Speaking THE Times on sth December reported that “the outcome of the Cabinet Office’s deliberations on what is or is not still sensitive material” many years after the spy Blunt’s connections with the Russians “may well influence his decision ...

... Personally Speaking ROBERT HALE must be hoping there will be no election before the Month of May. That is when they plan to issue The Ballet (£4:75), a novel by R.owland Summerscales, former polltical writer on the Evening News and the Daily Telegraph ...

... Personally Speaking BE sorry for Michael Joseph. Since the publication of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady in 1977 they have been inundated with diaries and memoirs of every size and description, in colour, and black and white, some in mint condition ...