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Mrs Simpson A Much Misunderstood Woman
Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931-1937 Edited by Michael Block (Weidenfeld, £12.95). AS the Catholic Herald leader on May 2 implied this is a book which should not have been......
Romantic To The Core
A Light Woman by Catherine Gavin (CollinsGrafton, £9.95). I'VE always been a sucker for romance — and I'm not ashamed to say it. And I'm obviously not the only one. How many of......
An Early Afficionado Of The Chunnel
The Unknown Conan Doyle: Letters to the Press Edited by John Michael Gibson and Richard Lancelyn Green (Seeker & Warburg, £15). WHAT AN immensely civilised and delightful person......
For Half A Century, Frank Sheed And Maisie Ward Formed
a remarkable Catholic partnership — she a biographer (notably of G IC Chesterton) he a theologian, together as publishers who founded Sheed and Ward and as tireless campaigners......
The Graduates By Edward Whitley (hamish Hamilton, £12.95).
EVERY generation produces one journalist by whose talents lesser scribblers must measure themselves, and despair. The publication of The Graduates marks the advent of such a......
A Great Cistercian Landmark
The Second Spring in the Charnwood Forest by Andrew C Lacey. (East Midlands Studies Unit of Loughborough University in association with Mount St Bernard Abbey, £3.50). .THE......
Theatre
THE AUSTRALIANS have taken over Wyndham's Theatre in London with the Australian Playwright David Williamson. Since it is an examination of corruption and the role of the press......
Inspiration For Times Gone By And Now
PICK OF THE PAPERBACKS Fiction Cecilia by Fanny Burney (Virago, £6.95) First published in 1782, this long but easy-toread novel proved an inspiration for Jane Austen's Pride and......