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Prodigious From The Word Go

David Crane HEAD ON: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Ian Botham Ebtuy Press, £18.99, pp. 384, ISBN 9780091921484 £15.19 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 There is a wonderful set of medieval......

Falling Foul Of Fashion

Matthew Dennison THE CLOSED DOOR AND OTHER STORIES by Dorothy Whipple Persephone, £12, pp. 229, ISBN 9781903155646 £9.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 J. B. Priestley described......

The Importance Of Being Earnest

Lloyd Evans STATE OF THE NATION: BRITISH THEATRE SINCE 1945 by Michael Billington Faber, £20, pp. 435, ISBN 9780571210343© £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 LONDON STAGE IN THE......