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D.A.N. Jones, 20 December 1990
A Welsh Childhood
by Alice Thomas Ellis and Patrick Sutherland.
Joseph, 186 pp., £15.99, September 1990,0 7181 3292 0 Show More
by Alice Thomas Ellis and Patrick Sutherland.
Joseph, 186 pp., £15.99, September 1990,
Alarms and Excursions: Thirty Years in Israel
by Naomi Shepherd.
Collins, 220 pp., £16, August 1990,0 00 215333 5 Show More
by Naomi Shepherd.
Collins, 220 pp., £16, August 1990,
Birds of Ill Omen
by Marie Seurat, translated by Dorothy Blair.
Quartet, 168 pp., £10.95, September 1990,0 7043 2694 9 Show More
by Marie Seurat, translated by Dorothy Blair.
Quartet, 168 pp., £10.95, September 1990,
“... This is From Early Life by the oldest of the five authors, the novelist and scientist ‘William Cooper’: he was born in 1910 and brought up (as Harry Hoff) in the town of Crewe in Cheshire. Seniors in his family were determined chapel-goers, but Cooper-Hoff looks back at his childhood, over eighty ... ”