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... 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 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 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 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 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 ...

... Personally Speaking HODDER’s acquisition of New English Library may have come as a surprise in most quarters, but very few people I've talked to consider it anything other than a stroke of good business. Under Nick Webb’s editorial direction the next ...

... Personally Speaking IF Reggie “Scoop” Speller was still active as a master lensman in Fleet Street he would have taken many an exclusive picture of Prince Charles and Lady Diana by now. Well into his eighties, he is in retirement in Eastbourne, but What ...

... Personally Speaking CASSELL will publish as soon as possible Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (£7-95) by Theo Aronson. This is no opportunist hack job but a serious historical biography, which the author had been working on for two years. It is his ...

... Personally Speaking GOLLANCZ have a book which will go somewhere near the top of Christmas sales this year, in a fashion Mot dissimilar from the way The C'Oum‘ry Diary of an Edwardian Lady did two years ago. _Last week Gollancz invited me to View the ...