Contents
From the Editors ‘String is my foible’ • FELICITY JAMES
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
Shall I Be Me? • DEREK PARKER
Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl and Me
Uncle Quentin Revisited • TOM HODGKINSON
Enid Blyton, Five on Kirrin Island Again
Surprised by Joy • KRISTIAN DOYLE
Adam Zagajewski, Slight Exaggeration
A Northern Survivor • PAMELA BEASANT
Stromness Books & Prints, Orkney
Double Trouble • ANTHONY GARDNER
Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda
. . . from the Trees • ISABEL LOYD
On books about trees, Part II
A Recording Angel • ANTHONY QUIN
Geoffrey Fletcher, The London Nobody Knows
The Thread that Binds Them • URSULA BUCHAN
A. P. Wavell (ed.), Other Men’s Flowers Reaping the Whirlwind • RICHARD PLAT
William Safire, Freedom
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