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The Greatest...?

Harriet Waugh The Paper Men William Golding (Faber & Faber £7.95) M r Golding must have written The Paper Men before he received the ac- colade of The Nobel Prize for......

Good Works

Christopher Hawtree Spinsters of this Parish Sybil Oldfield (Virago £5.95) 'IQ he has the profile of a gorilla and onc e L./acted Ophelia — does that conveY anything to you?'......