Contents

From the Editors 5

‘String is my foible’

• FeliCity JaMes Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford 7

Shall I Be Me?

• dereK parKer Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl and Me 13

Uncle Quentin Revisited

• toM hodGKinson Enid Blyton, Five on Kirrin Island Again 18

Surprised by Joy

• Kristian doyle Adam Zagajewski, Slight Exaggeration 24

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Northern Survivor

• paMela beasant Stromness Books & Prints, Orkney 30

Double Trouble

• anthony Gardner Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda 35

. . . from the Trees

• isabel lloyd On books about trees, Part II 40

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Recording Angel

• anthony quinn Geoffrey Fletcher, The London Nobody Knows 46

The Thread that Binds Them

• ursula buChan A. P. Wavell (ed.), Other Men’s Flowers 51

Reaping the Whirlwind

• riChard platt William Safire, Freedom 56