To Err Is Truman
Donald Watt The Winter Soldiers Richard Ketchum (Macdonald £3.75) Harry S. Truman Margaret Truman (Hamish Hamilton £4.75) The late Wendell Wilkie, Roosevelt's defeated rival at......
Shorter Notice
Not in Front of the Servants Frank Dawes (Wayland Publications £3.95) The recent orgy of televisual sentimentalising about the romance of domestic service demands a factual......
Bill Platypus's
Paperbacks To begin this week with poetry. Jonathan Cape have just issued in paperback Collected Poems 1924-1955 (E1.95) of George Seferis. Seferis is a Greek poet whose......
Bookbuyer's
Bookend This week the judges meet to decide the short-list for the E5,000 Booker Prize for Fiction. It could be make or break for Britain's answer to Goncourt. Launched in 1969......