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Scholars And Chips Way Up North
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble (Weidenfeld, £10.95) WHEN softly-spoken southerners politely, yet mockingly, ask if everyone in the north eats "chips for tea", I am never......
Urgent Plea To Halt World Destruction
Only One Earth by Lloyd Timberlake (BBC and International Institute for Environment and Development/Earthscan, £6.95). The Greening of Africa by Paul Harrison (International......
Hopkins: Coming Out Of The Undergrowth
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Critical Heritage, edited by Gerald Roberts (RKP, £27.50). HAVING hated the pompous title of this series for many years, and distrusted the collective......
English Under Species Threat
The Life of my Choice, by Wilfred Thesiger (Collins, £15.00). WILFRED Thesiger closes The Life of my Choice elegantly, congratulating himself on a lifetime of having been there......
Epitomy Of Everything English Reading The Catholic Herald?
The Stories of Muriel Spark (Bodley Head, £12.95). SHORT stories by Muriel Spark have just been published in France (in translation), and I was not entirely surprised to learn......
We're All Fallible
The Divorced Catholic by Dom Edmund Flood OSB (Collins Fount, Paperback, £4.95). THE Divorced Catholic by Edmund Flood is a excellent short guide to current Catholic re-thinking......
Disclosure Equals An Act Of Prayer
Robert Mason: The Bowl (of Emotions). ROBERT Mason's whole family — father; mother, brother, sister — were found to be suffering from a slowly degenerative disease. His father,......
Five-star Reading Of Garden Bogles
Children's Corner 011ie and the Bogle by Julia Jarman (Andersen Press, £5.95). JULIA Jarman's second children's novel opens in a classroom but it is a far cry from the......