The Politics of the Doctor in the Foreign Office
Dr Owen emerges as Britain's new Foreign Secretary in a sharp display of vigour and youthfulness. His new book outlines his NHS-focused background at the DHSS, detailing expansive growth, administrative rise, resource responsibility, and calls for financial discipline among doctors, while emphasizing preventive care and social equity.
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Dr Owen
Britain
Ma Pear
Department of Health and Social Security
Hirbara
Pooition
NHS
Iatance
Owen
Qwen
England
Foreign Office
DHSS
Value of Medicine sparks debate on science and society
A critical review of Phillip Rhodes’s The Value of Medicine examines medicine’s role from prehistory to modern society. It questions overreliance on technology, contrasts rich and poor nations’ care, and urges dialogue between public policy and the medical profession to justify high budgets and train varied practitioners.
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Russia
China
Nostalgic Thoughts on The Joy of the Snow by Eurzaern Goudge
Patricia Rappolt reviews Eurzeern Goudge to autobiography The Joy of the Snow from Coronet 268 pages priced 3.20. She recalls Wells Lamplighter muffin man Oxford Devon and other places and people while noting the book’s charm and gentle philosophy.
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Eurzasern Goudge
Wells
Oxford
Devon
Patricia Rappolt
Short story craft for beginners and common faults
Maurice Dunlevy analyzes novice and professional short stories noting the need for theme. He cites Hope on Australia’s decline to mere daily life and urges writers to weave scenes, images, and incidents that reveal human nature and society. He warns against overreliance on summary and stresses scenes that immerse readers in experience.
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Tus
A. D. Hope
Australia
Riviera
Rome
de Maupassant
Chekhov
Maugham
The Story Craft and Scenes in Narrative Writing
This piece surveys scene and summary in storytelling. It contrasts Hemingway’s immediacy with Singer’s summarizing approach and stresses the value of theme, specific details, and accumulation of telling details. It offers questions to assess meaning, focus, and craft.
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Hemingway
Tom
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Market Street
Fischelson
Warsaw
Zunch
Life in the Crocodile Islands book praised for mission life insights
Aown Wells recounts ten years in Arnhem Land with Reverend F E A Wells at Milingimbi Mission. The practical nurse author offers frank humor and affection about Aborigines, their customs and beliefs, noting non-sentimental views absent in some anthropologists. The book is available in Seal Rigby Books, 221 pages.
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Aown Wells
Crocodile Islands
Arnhem Land
F E. A. Wells
Milingimbi
Seal
Rigby
Katharine Whitehorn Book Review Highlights Her Bold Career
This review praises Katharine Whitehorn for inventing intelligent journalism for women and turning the women page into a persons page. It notes her fourth collection of weekly columns from 1970 to 1976, her sharp wit, humane tone, and provocative observations on topics from sex to travel. The piece lauds her lasting relevance and urges both longtime readers and newcomers to view her work as a companion volume.
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Kartharine Whitehorn
The
Spectator
Observer
Montaigne
Greece
Inherits His Father's Nose by Neate Marsh review
A Marsh detective spoof introduces Ricky Alleyn the son of Alleyn and Troy. Set on an Anglo French Channel Island with the Pharamond family, it blends wit and intrigue as Ricky confronts fatal riding, hidden papers, drug running, and a tangled romantic plot amid eccentric aristocrats and a crime hunt across Brittany.
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Ricky
Aleynhere
Fox
Britany
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