Keeping out and coming close
Michael Church, 3 October 1985
Here lies: An Autobiography
by Eric Ambler.
Weidenfeld, 234 pp., £10.95, June 1985,0 297 78588 5 Show More
by Eric Ambler.
Weidenfeld, 234 pp., £10.95, June 1985,
The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven
by Sheridan Morley.
Weidenfeld, 300 pp., £10.95, September 1985,9780297787082 Show More
by Sheridan Morley.
Weidenfeld, 300 pp., £10.95, September 1985,
Secrets: Boyhood in a Jewish Hotel 1932-1954
by Ronald Hayman.
Peter Owen, 224 pp., £12, July 1985,9780720606423 Show More
by Ronald Hayman.
Peter Owen, 224 pp., £12, July 1985,
“... was at least unconventional – he was deflowered by a glamorous aunt. The ‘hotel’ in which Audrey Peckham spent six excruciating months, before her trial and conviction for ‘incitement to murder’, was a remand centre. A Woman in Custody is a shocking tale, and its enthusiastic reception by penal reformers has been well-deserved. The account ... ”
