Saint Jane
D.A.N. Jones, 20 October 1983
Mrs Pooter’s Diary
by Keith Waterhouse and John Jensen.
Joseph, 208 pp., £7.95, October 1983,0 7181 2339 5 Show More
by Keith Waterhouse and John Jensen.
Joseph, 208 pp., £7.95, October 1983,
Squeak: A Biography of NPA 1978A 203
by John Bowen and Eric Fraser.
Faber, 127 pp., £2.95, October 1983,0 571 13170 0 Show More
by John Bowen and Eric Fraser.
Faber, 127 pp., £2.95, October 1983,
The Life and Times of Michael K
by J.M. Coetzee.
Secker, 250 pp., £7.95, September 1983,0 436 10297 8 Show More
by J.M. Coetzee.
Secker, 250 pp., £7.95, September 1983,
“... Peter Prince’s admirable novel, The Good Father, is about a group of professional-class people in the London Borough of Lambeth, trying to see themselves as liberal and left-wing. They were students together in the late 1960s and are struggling to maintain in the 1980s the package of liberal values (or ‘received ideas’) which they shared so confidently in their youth ... ”