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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

Roger Lewis on Antonia Fraser

Mira Bar-Hillel on Bernard Madoff

J W M Thompson on Pitt the Elder

Peter McKay on the Presidential election

Michael Barber on suburbia

James Hughes-Onslow on Roy Kerridge's 'Triumphs of Communism'

PLUS: Audiobooks, reviewed by Rachel Redford

Regulars

MUSIC by Richard Osborne on BBC Four's 'Sacred Music'

FILM by Marcus Berkmann – 'Up in the Air' and 'An Education'

OLDIE MASTERS Philip Athill on Joseph Michael Gandy

SPORT Frank Keating on Stephen Potter and Ian Carmichael

SHOPPING Alice Pitman goes to Glasgow

COOKERY Elisabeth Luard on Easter salmon with sauce choron

THEATRE by Beryl Bainbridge – 'Enron'

WIRELESS Valerie Grove's radio roundup

TELEVISION  Richard Ingrams on Gerry Adam's search for Jesus

GARDENING David Wheeler on the Cotswolds

MEMORIAL  James Hughes-Onslow on Sir Alastair Aird

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