Reviews

From the archives:

Virginia Ironside 
Hoorah, a mother-in-law at last

I started off life as just a person. Then I became a wife. Then a divorcee. After that, I found I was a mother, then a grandmother. And now, finally, I am a mother-in-law as well…

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Enfield Snr
Storm in a Tin Tin cup

All the fuss about the last book in the Harry Potter series has overshadowed a publishing coup which was equally brilliant but cost a great deal less...

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Reviews
Books

Patrick Newley on Alastair Sim

Robert Low on The Austerity Olympics

Piers Brendon on Rupert Murdoch

Charles Elliott on libraries and first editions

Christian Wolmar on Ken Livingstone

PLUS: Audiobooks, reviewed by Rachel Redford
Regulars
MUSIC by Richard Osborne on The Rake's Progress

THEATRE by Beryl Bainbridge – Brief Encounter

FILM by Marcus Berkmann – The Edge of Love and The Happening

OLDIE MASTERS – forgotten artists – Philip Athill on Alan Sorrell

WIRELESS Valerie Grove on radio roundup

DVD by Roger Graef – a retrospective of British documentaries

TELEVISION, by Richard Ingrams – on Qur'an and Wimbledon
 
Miscellaneous
SPORT Frank Keating on the football season and photo-opps for politicians

SHOPPING by Alice Pitman – on Sainsbury's

COOKERY by Elisabeth Luard – on pork pies

GARDENING by David Wheeler – on bonsai

EXPAT – Nick Manho in Sicily