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When Integrity Eclipses Egotism
Abiding City, by Laurence 'Halley (The Bodley Head, £9.95). HAVING JUST failed to get under the skin of John Le Carre's latest, I approached this book with misgivings. Still......
Hypocrisy Of The British Abroad
The Lord by Soraya Antonius (Hamish Hamilton, £9.95). This is a remarkably fine first novel written with conviction and out of experience. Soraya Antonius was born in Jerusalem......
Labour Camps A Uniquely Russian Hell
A World Apart by Gustav Herling, translated by Joseph Marek (Heinemann, £9.95). Bad Company And Other Stories, chosen and introduced by Antony Lambton (Quarter Books, £10.95).......
Recusant Studies.
tapping a rich vein Recusants in the Exchequer Pipe Rolls 1581-92 is the 71st volume published by the Catholic Record Society, and its fourth devoted to the Exchequer's......
Few Plums In This School Pudding
Teachers, edited by Frank E Huggett (Weidenfeld, £10.95). SUBTITLED "First-hand views of the classroom crisis", this book consists of interviews with teachers from many sorts of......
Trevor Among The Masters
The News from Ireland by William Trevor (The Bodley Head, £9.95). WILLIAM Trevor is arguably the greatest living Irish writer of short stories. This collection puts him in the......
Indispensable Guide
Christian Ministry to the Sick (Geoffrey Chapman, £6.95). MOST highly recommended. This is the book for the chaplain and pastoral worker involved in the care of the sick. The......