... Personally Speaking ...

... Personally Speaking FROM an austere convent to the Daily Express is a pretty long Step, but Karen Armstrong has made It, with Macmillan’s help. Through the Narrow Gate (£6-95), published on 28th May, will be serialised in the Express in four instalments ...

... Personally Speaking ONLY a month or so ago I was extolling the merits of Goebbels and Gladys by Keith Colquhoun (£6-95, John Murray) and exclaiming: “For wit, irony and down-to-earth truth about the running of a newspaper [it] will hardly be equalled ...

... Personally Speaking Nomm SHRAPNEL has, in his time on the Guardian, reported on the House of Commons and its activities with more shrewd judgement, accuracy, and incorruptibly than any other political scribe in Fleet Street. Possessed of slightly more ...

... Personally Speaking ...

... Personally Speaking KESTREL has popped up with an overnight bestseller that must be Pleasing Penguin’s Peter Mayer. The Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Counting Book (£4-50) by Robert Crowther follows his The Most Amazing Hideand-Seek Alphabet Book (200,000 ...

... Personally Speaking ...

... Personally Speaking iver- ENT, celebratin the 75th anniver D Sary of Every%nan’s Library Lhi: bear’ “Ould not have done so wit Eetter book than Everyman’s Book ll)f “llg'lish Verse (£B-95) edited by John alt s a lovely production, fi Vel of low cost, and ...

... Personally Speaking MICHAEL FooT has a book coming from Davis-Poynter in September that has had the Observer paying more that it has ever paid for a serial before. Reginald Davis-Poynter, who has world rights—and the author’s close friendship—has sealed ...

... Personally Speaking COMIC relief is now available in Side Effects by Woody Allen (£5-50, New English Library) and will be added to on 23rd April when Arthur Barker issue I Never Saw My Father Nude (£3-50) by Dan Colman. Both are recommended reading for ...

... Personally Speaking I HAVE often wondered what an in-depth market research of this column’s readers would reveal—apart from n!'at dear soul who writes: “Dear Pig How , for instance, were around in%fin. and bookselling in the *3os, when 29 firms went out ...

... Personally Speaking VERA BRITTAIN’s Testament of Youth was based on the diaries she kept during 1913-1917, and on 17th September Gollancz publishes Chronicle of Youth (£B-50), an edited version of the diaries, which have an even greater intimacy and immediacy ...