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BOOKS SUNDAY 7 APRIL 1985 21 IB ISTANBUL is the sort of city which those who have never FICTION OUTSIDE the routine stuff and a few good fantasy novels, 1984 was a thin time for younger fiction. This year, though, starts well; some of our top names are writing with characteristic flair (even if not beating their best) and a memorable new book adds to the 1940s dossier. If there is an element amnion to all these books (apart from that of sheer physical adventure) it is that of solitude, Arnold's mortal island at child-level. The Island on Bird Street by tTri Orlev, translated by Hillel Hankin (Hutchinson 4.95) is a story based on fact of a boy of 11 who survives alone (with his tame white mouse) for nearly a year of the Nazi war in an emptied ruined Jewish ghetto set in a none-too-friendly Polish city. His mother is almost certainly dead, but his father might return; he might even be with the Resistance in the woods.

So Alex stays, using crazy hiding-places, like the tottering upstairs floor of a wrecked half-house; from there he can watch the Polish people about their daily lives. Crusoe at least could grow things, he reflects. There are daring moments; venturing out, he joins some Polish boys in a game. He's good, and they want him back; they don't know that he's a Jew. He has his father's pistol; he has items of advice.

Be sure that your biding place has an emereencv exit. Be kind. her characters who had seen so many ruins by her tenthbirthday that ruined hves did not move her') the achievement here is formidable. The writing's zest and pungency matches a range which encompasses every fictional genre from engagi political thriller to the lightest of social candyfloss. The innocents are abroad in Kissing America too, this timein Fifties Italy, hugged to desperation by those in flight from transatlantic provincialism, like Frank and Tom, nesting beside theAmoasrefugeesfromlkeand Mamie.

Florence is, for the time being, cosy, decorative and cheap, butwhensolemnlyvolup-tuousAniia invades thefrliyea the city forsakes its blandishments as the three are successively betrayed by the forces of appetite and expectation. Like Where Angels Fear To which on several levels it interestingly recalls, the book deals cogentlywiththatspecies of greedy pseudo-colonialism by which the Anglo-Saxon world lays hold of Italy. Brian Glan-ville's gestures are hardly as subtle as Forster's when Anna, simply through her intrusion, destroys Frank's and Tom's JuIes-et-Jim buddyhood, the act is less convincing because the author seems all the time to be holding back on intensity and telling us the story through the Btiffest of lips. His thesis is intelligently expounded, the Florence is notably that of Florentines rather than tourists, but the ultimate tragedy is far too gratuitous to be convincing. Hard to conceive of London as sending up quite such a powerful whiff olgemus loci, but The Man From Marseille almost persuades us that romance has not quite departed from St John's 'Wood.

Alexander Ostroff is the author of a runaway much. Hard-up well-bred family buys ominously cheap decayed old house on the Cornish coast. No local shops or farms wiD serve, or deliver. It's haunted, yes, by a girl who comes from the sea to hunt for her sealskin, long ago hidden away by a fisherman. Cathy "(16 of so) is the seal-girl's ally against the nastily hostile villagers, and does indeed find the skin.

But she and the other humans still have' things to solve. You have to smile at the bravura of the close: (a quick shift to 50 years later) but it gives the book a refreshing difference. Ivan Southall's A City Out of takes up a situation left open at the end of the author's 'To the Wild when a plane crash left six children (four boys, two girls, all aged around 13) on a remote island off the north Australian coast. You can't dismiss either i 'Crusoe' or 'Lord of the Flies' in any such tale of survival and relationships. But this has too the disturbing impact of most of Southall's: books, a kind of hammering intensity, which can be quite impressive.

Alert readers will note that the sensitive characters are among the males; of the girls, the plain one pursues aniiriwilling boy the pretty one kills and drags in the pig for dinner. It's a boy, though, who finds the traces, now a century old, of the small group of settlers who failed to survive, and quietly buries the sad remains. There's a cunning twist at the end, moreover rescuers do sight the place at last, but after 12 yum hoot passed. of Mayne; we know Tawena's thoughts, but no one clearly conimuhicates with anyone else. Only the reader sees what each one seems to miss and therefore has the' whole experience of this strange and haunting book.

Jan Mark can do what few English children's authors for years have been able to manage; that is, write a non-fantasy book of uncommon excellence about the everyday commonplace. (Mayne does this too, of course, but differently.) Mark's Trouble Half-Way (Kestrel 5.95), though a lesser book, perhaps, than last year's brilliant is of this kind. Amy (11) is reserve for the Junior Inter-Schools Gymnastics Shield, so if Debra's ankle isn't better. That's for real. Her new stepfather, a quiet young man who drives long-distance lorries, is not, if she can help it.

But when Mum has torush to sick Grandad in Colchester, stepfather Richard solves the matter of work or Amy by firmly taking her with him on the trip up north. It's an education in many (commendable) ways. As for the reader, the expertise alone is ah experience: I would like to see this book reviewed in whatever is the ferrymen's trade journal. Really, it deserves a better jacket. Kenneth Lillington's Selkie (Faber 6.95) links the seal-girl ballad legend with a modern teenage problem story Well, it's 1935, but the conflicts and mistakes (parentchild, money, wrong boy wanted, wrong boy courting) don't change all.

that NAOMI LEWIS wmsBssssssBssassssm bered live on in this book. Excellent jacket, by the way. A move to new scenes and the dropping of some mannerisms cannot disguise a work by William Mayne, probably our most original Irving writer for the young. In Drift (Cape 6.95) an 11-year-old boy in a North American pioneer settlement is playing (though his mother forbids this) with an Indian girl, Tawena, when' the river ice breaks and they and a hungry wakened bear float off and are cast on to a bleak rmfatniiinr shore. Tawena borrows the boy's knife to strike sparks for a fire.

But before she can return it, she is aware of two Indian women from a hostile tribe, and she must flee. She conveys to him, or so it seems, that she will tell them through the bear that they must take him home. In the night there are screams in the morning, bear traces and blood. Was this what she meant? As a prisoner of the women, the boy trudges day after day through the woods, fust fearing, then becoming allied to his captors. The taken knife still rankles, yet surprisel He is brought back home.

But the book is hot yet done. We move to Tawena's story. Determined to return the knife and get the boy home, she follows silently, leaving deceptive tracks, painfully fabricated. Verbalising me inarticulate to a studied device written a novel imagine as being fiercely arousing to thosewhohave. the spot which has every-tning! apart from the inescapable romance of its yetting and the pervasive impression of seediness and chicanery lurking in the corners, there is that curious air of unfinished business in the relics left behind by successive occupants, as if, given half the chance, the Byzantines and the Ottomans were going one day to come back and tidy up.

Fiction has been reluctant to make use of this and is apparently quite unmoved by the place's unique cosmopolitanism. Apart fromahandfiuofspythrillersand an episode in John Buchan's Greenmantlej'itishard to think of any novel which has extensively evoked the city's atmosphere. Thus Maureen Freely deserves congratulation if only for having taken up the challenge so gamely. Istanbul itself occupies centre stage in The life of the Party and what happens in the book is self-evidendy the place's fault. Ostensibly this is the story of a nauseating binge-maker and beano-hopper, Hector Cabot, a teacher at an American academy beside the Bosphorus but far more seriously dedicated to dreary assignments of 'having fun' among the foreign community.

He is tiresomely alcoholic, in a fashion typical of his kind, loud, lecherous, coarse and unhappy in a manner all too easily recognisable to anyone who has ever sampled the fungal growths of expatriate society. MsFredyisunfundihiglypre-cise in her documentation of this JONATHAN KEATES THE LIFE OF THE PARTY by Maureen Freely Cape 9.95 KISSING AMERICA by Brian Glanville Blond 8.95 THE MAN FROM MARSEILLE by J. P. Smith Murray 8.95 SINKING, STEALING by Jan Clausen Women's Press 3.95 parasite world. Notonly does she know her Istanbul down to the last dalmtu taxi and the umpteenth rabid dog, but she has the knack of making us share her unexpectedly practical coolness towards its various seductions, a detached senseofitspotenrial for menace and deception which ensures that glamour and nostalgia are kept well out of sight Not all her expats are as dismally representative as Hector.

Her desire, on the other hand, to docket and label her characters, 'a Rhodes scholar with political 'a young teacher who had a yellow Fiat sports car an was said to take leads here and there to an air of if, having set out her cast, die author had become over- Ereoccupied with the sheer ibour of holding it together. Yet, by the same token, the pause takenby the narrativeto describe the childhood and youth of Hector's Greek mother-in-law Aspasia is a masterly vindication of this authenticating technique. Even if Ms Freely has been a trifle too eager to crowd the totality of modern Istanbul into a single work (there are times when her dispassion recalls one of Maureen Freely A formidable those journey-across-this-great-country-oi-ours affairs which the American novel throws up in its more restive moods. Josie, a surrogate mother, lugs 10-year-old Encka through the US, with frequent pauses for comment in a style patently influenced by Creative Writing courses. As, for instance: 'yesterday's blue air, steam-cleaned by thunder bestseller about bis Russian emigre parents which manages, in the process, to sweep him along with it.

The banalities of success are crosscut with snatchesof autobiography, but as 'Troika's' moment fades, so Ostroff himself draws ever closer to the genuine elucidation of his past. The sections dealing with this, against a background of nail-biting, goose-pimpling tensions in occupied Paris, are so very good that you wonder why Smith didn't junk me other half of the novel altogether anddevote himself to writing the Greene-tinged fiction to which his skills seem ideally adapted. Sinking, Stealing is one of storms, has already begun to contract within a sphincter of 1. 1 1 but trust only The characters that must be remem oiue rjunzun, Hmcnea mannai-tan's familiar Tan Clausen's strongest suit is a sharp-eyed observation of American consumer follies, a sort of fictionalised anthropology lixiDCDEic which saves the book from the abysses of portentousness. The Storv of Imeldsi.

Who Was Small by Morris Lurie and Terry Denton (Oxford 5.50) finelda's a well-behaved nice PAPERBACK CHOICE and fortunes are gradually and cunningly reversed. Spectacularly nasty, funny and highly moral. Small World by David Lodge (Penguin 2.50) Exuberantly plotted romance from the academic htue girl in a red dress, a credit to any family but she's only six inches high, and sleeps in a shoe box. Perhaps, this rather small, dunk her parents. Doctor suggests that she eat 'long food' (carrots, asparagus, peppermint rock).

No good. Then a better idea turns up. Pictures (like text) ally the infallible Thumbelina theme with the straight-faced serious comedy. A super book. George's Garden by Gerds Marie Scheidl and Bemadetts lit.

cnt. outposts of the world, and packed with erudition, in-jokes, in-fighting, pure farce and Life and Times of Michael Watts (Abelard 5.95) George's garden straws bluebells. wild roses, grass with daisies and Old King Cola one of Alan Howard'a Illustrations to the new paperback edition of The Faber Book of Nursery 8onge by Donald Mitchell and Carey Blyton (4.86). clover. How unlike that of herbicidal neighbour flat mown lawn, clipped bushes, gnomes.

When foolish daisy bedtime by telling Grandpa a story. Between his cunning questions and heir prompt answers a glorious tale emerges, in which we see floating scraps of the wildest nursery rhyme and fairy tale, as well as homelier elements. Lawrence's pictures (sepia line, tight colours) catch the fart and fantasy perfectly. Bright Eyes and Bushy Tails by Kilmeny NHand (Hodder 7.50) A splendid book of full-page animal paintings (in habitat), with factual paragraph on each. Creatures include Racoon, Marine Iguana, Bushbaby, Squirrel Monkey, Wolf a major victim of human vindictiveness '), Stoat (' the coronation of George VI in 1937 required 50,000 skins'), Platypus, Musk Ox, Ocelot (' harmless to humans, but hunted to the verge of extinction for its coat ') and others.

See too Niland's earlier book of Australian Down in the Wood by Nicola Smee (Collins 3.50) Why are there leaves and mud on teddybear8 feet in the morning? On the alert next night, boy sees teddy go downstairs, out through cat-flap (a nice touch this), and into the woods. Yes I It's a picnic I If all says teddy to the others, he's my hoy, and he's Admirable plot, pictures and text for four to seven readers or listeners. Today I Thought I'd Run Away by Jane Johnson (A Black 4.95) Purposeful child decides that today's adventure is to run away, and packs a useful bag. Meeting an ogre he throws out a comb; a forest springs up. An eggcup becomes a mountain.

At last, when bag is empty, he yearns to be in that posh neat sward, kind George assists, then rescues. Never mind the whimsy, there's a real theme here Mozart by Wolfgang Hildes-heimer, translated by Mario Faber (Dent 4.95) Can we ever hope to penetrate the enigmatic personality of 'perhaps the greatest genius in recorded human history Hildesheimer doesn't claim to have done so, but in this quest for the man behind the music he comes closer to it than anyone before. A deeply original approach, full of subtle insights. Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary by Alan Bullock (Oxford 12.50) A fitting climax to one of the most massive of post-war biographies. Having dealt in previous volumes with Bevin the trade union leader and Bevin the wartime Minister of Labour, Lord Bullock now crowns the edifice with a 900-page study of his hero as Foreign Secretary.

A meticulous piece of solid scholarship. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Qeland (Oxford 1.95) 'Fanny Hill' has finally made it into respectable, classic company, somewhere between 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'The Vicar of which is exactly where she belongs. Qeland'8 witty, libertine heroine contrives to combine the qualities of the women impersonated by his Sredecessors in particular ichardson's 'Pamela' and Fielding's She's a thoroughly literary creation ('Oh my pen drops from me here in the ecstasy'), a writer's playmate. Jane Austen Selected Letters edited by R. W.

Chapman (Oxford 2.95) The familiar 'World's Classics selection, helpfully re-introduced by Marilyn Butler. Austen absorbed in the Homung (Dent 3.50) Hornung was Conan Doyle's brother-in-law. His hero-cad A. J. Raffles crook, cricketer, patriot and faithful palpitating acolyte Bunny have a niche in crime fiction opposite Holmes.

In collection 'The Amateur 'The Black Mask' and 'A Thief in the Night' can still touch the springs of excitement and the attitudes of late-Victorian England. Every body Autobiography by Gertrude Stein (Virago 3.95) Written a few years after "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toxlas (1933) made her a celebrity, this must be the most personal, accessible and hutinmng of all G.S.'s works especially on her family background. In Camden Torn by David Thomson (Penguin 2.95) Written from day to day in diary form this Woodbrook of NW1 in-view, not travellers' view slips also, palimpsest fashion, into the often appalling past: the lives (and deaths) of navvies (this is early xaiiwayland), of workhouse orphans, factory children and more. A miniature classic of its kind.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by John Simpson (Oxford 2.95) Not so much an abridgement of the full ODP (3rd edition, 1970 as a revised and updated selection of those proverbs still in use in the 20th century though the point at which they entered the language may go back centuries. Fascinating stuff 1 Success by Martin Amis (Penguin 1.95) A tale of two brothers Gregory, narcissistic sexual athlete, and Terry, drudging little failure whose roles bareby one who rose up from the The Concise History of Music by Gerald Abraham (Oxford 12.50) Since publication in 1979, one of the best, widest ranging and least stereotyped, as well as the most readable, one-volume histories. Harriet Wilson's Memoirs edited by Lesley Blanch (Century 4.95) 'Publish and be replied Wellington when Harriet tried to blackmail him with the Memoirs and luckily she did, for whatever her other talenti while she. was passing from hand to hand like a coin of the realm around St James's, the famous demi-rep was great hand with the pen as the tweaked the Regency male principle in its sensitive parts. John Buchan A Biography by Janet Adam Smith (Oxford 4.95) Among all his accomplishments Buchan did not rate his adventure novels very highly, but from Perthshire manse to Governor-Generalship in Ottawa the key to this outstanding biography of a gifted and careful man is the young dreamer of the Border trout-burns.

The Life of Dashiel Hammett by Diane Johnson (Picador 3.95) Founder-father of the tough-guy private eye, Pinkerton man and pulp-writer to years of fame and fortune, lost alcoholic, victim of the McCarthy witch hunt, it would be easy to dismiss Hammett as a symbol of boom and bust, but the author uses her novelist's perceptions to explore deeper zones of experience and disenchantment. The Collected Raffles by E. W. daily upkeep of the network of family and social ties, and of course (especially when writing to her sister Cassandra) keeping a very exact tally of the pleasures and the costs of playing the game. On Being the Right Size and Other Essays by J.

B. S. Haldane, edited by John Maynard Smith (Oxford 4.95) Haldane (1892-1964) brilliant geneticist, mathematician, long-time Marxist, also knew how to make scientific ideas accessible on the page. Now, 21 years after his death, his thoughts have a curious topicality. Themes in this choice of his essays include religion, violence, painkillers, germkillers, cats, Hinduism, the list Judgment, and such surprising items as his scientist father's aversion from experiments on animals: 'He preferred to work on himself.

I have tried to imitate Note especially the title-piece. F. Scott Fitzgerald by Andre Le Vot, translated by William Byron (Penguin 4,95) The view from the Sorbonne a French professor's retelling of the familiar story of early success, Jazz Age escapades, travel, alcoholism, Zelda's madness, and death at 44. Lucid, absorbing and with some new angles. Collected Poems by Theodore Roethke (Faber 4.95) Definitive edition of an American poet who had a profound impact on the Plath-Hughes generation.

Love lyrics, songs for children, marvellous descriptions of animals, plus 16 previously uncollected poems that include such epigrams as: 'He left his pants upon a chair was a widow, so she he was apprehended, to hand. Beguiling pictures in luminous summer colours. The Boy Who Cried Wolf by by J. M. Coetzee (Penguin 2.95) Grim but heroically restrained South African novel about a man reduced almost to nothing and yet surviving all coercions and huroiliations.

One of the most powerful and impressive Booker prizewinners of recent years. The Tale of the LatryOchikabo translated by Wilfrid Whitehonse and Bizo Yanagisawa (Arena 3.50) Translation of an early medieval Japanese classic, 'Ochikubo Monogatari, a little earlier than the more famous Tate of and with much of that masterpiece's episodic structure, intrigue, delicacy, observation and sly humour. Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino (Picador 2.50) Tales from the 1950s and 1960s, featuring the big-city adventures of the little man of the tide, who is a 'clown' in something like Shakespeare's tense, a peasant and an unwitting satirist who finds magic in the most improbable places. The Other 8ide of the Fire by Alice Thomas Bills (Penguin 2.50) A modern comedy of Eros as a bored wife goes hopelessly overboard for her blase young stepson and life, in the all too solid form of a Scotch vet, catches up with literature. Sibylline and sharp.

Tony Ross (Andersen 4.95) Ross's jaunty version of this While mother reads on the grass, child (aged 2 or less) gets out of pushchair and gives rides in turn to butterfly, frog, duck, fox, cat, little bear. Enough? Then all together race him back through the woods to Mum. This endearing book (from a French original), with its expressive line and clean light colours, is a model of elegant simplicity, unerringly timed at the very young. Feelings by Aliki (Bodky Head 5.95) Mini pictures of tots and urchins, sometimes 20 to a page, show, in action, shame, boredom, hope, admiration, rage, losing and finding, giving and taking, being friends, venturing oh the high diving board, and very much else. Every picture teus a story.

Look for your own problem in this perceptive, endlessly fascinating book. goes home. Other foes thus Med include goblin, dragon, monster (out of Sendak all gruesomely shown in huge unsparing detail. But the boy is the interesting character, in the pictures too. A Fairyland Alphabet pictures by Alan Baker (Deutsch 4.95) A treat for those who like their fairies to be enchantingly pretty, in a traditional, sylvan setting, and why not The artist is also no mean hand at flowers (which frame each picture) and animals see his owl and field-mouse.

Someone might have refurbished the rhymes a bit (they are out of Arthur Mee) the best is also the dottiest, really. is the Mermaid who lives in the Moat. is the Nutshell she Has for a boat. For all susceptible ages. The Pushchair Adventure by Michel Gay (Methuen 4.95) admonitory tale is a worthy addition to the Ross-myth gallery (see Pu8s-in-Boots and others).

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Mrs Mummery, Haddiscoe Hall, Norfolk. COTTAGE, Nr Caldbeck. Sip 47, 85-ll5 p.w. (031) 552 8064. ISLE OF MULL.

Pleasant house, ideal for touring, home cooking. EDGE HILL COLLEGE for MA, BA, BSc, B.Ed. (0695) 75171. I Al nuTVIt comprenerene ana senous ST. BEES, CUMBRIA.

Five sc flats, sip 26, col. TV. Suit active and disabled. 45-90 p.w., until 15 June. Tel.

(0946) 822718. ST ANDREWS. Family house, sleeps 7. Near beach, golf, shops. Tel 0764 70895.

no stiuavmrcenaangtOB l22ftlMSTREeTAltoiMMIPSHIRtBUMlll KINGS OF KTNLOCH holiday NORFOLK. Convenient cottage fronting sand dunes and sea. Sleeps 67. (0502) 730 326. upiomafuegree ProspBctus from Michael Dwver A (Hons) WUkjn, UQa, it, J.

THE HOTEL, Isle of Colonsay, Argyll PA61 7YP. Brochure, map, etc tel. 09512 316. FIRST-CLASS home Warm welcome in 17th family run hotel, situated in remote northern fells. Brochure High Greenrigg House, Caldbeck, Cumbria.

Tel 430. SWAN HOTEL, Thornthwaita), Keswick. Delightful country hotel SWAP YOUR HOME for another, UK. Details, 17p stamp Home from Home Holidays in Britain, 64 Kenwyn Rd, Torquay. Rlwdecbitsrnatiorul (O.B.) Brighton, Sussex BY! 2HA Tali0273 27476l24hrs) overlooking aiuaaaw ana me uer-went vallev.

2. 3 or 4 niaht breaks. LANGUAGES at Postgraduate level (CNAA). PG DipMA Contemporary German Studies. PG Dip Modern Chinese (intensive course for beginners).

PG Dip English Studies for Language Teaching. PG Dip Languages for the Multiracial Community. EALING COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, St Mary's Road, Ealing, London W55RF. Tel 01-579 4111. NORFOLK.

Free brochure. North Norfolk Holiday Homes, Lee Warner Ave, Fakenham, Norfolk. TeL 0328 55 322. Rhodec International was Noted for excellent food. Hotel reopens 4th April.

For brochure, ring SUSSEX TOBERMORY GUEST HOUSE on the beautiful Isle of Mull. Situated on the waterfront with double, twin Sc family rooms overlooking the bay. Special motorist packase includes cor jfounded In 1960 OB NEAR GLENCOE A BEN NEVIS. Allt Nan Ros Hotel, Onich by Fort William. Family-run AA hotel in 5 acres of landscaped gardens.

Highly commended cuisine. Highland atmosphere. All rooms loenside views. Private facilities. D.B&B from 20.

Vacancies April, September, October. TeL 08553 210. FRIENDLY HOUSE overlooking Bassenthwaite Lake. Superb views. BB8.50, EM on request Phone now 059681 358.

PRETTIEST HOTEL on the beautiful north Norfolk coast. Open all year. Spring into Summer breaks. Overstrand Court Hotel, Overstraad, Norfolk (026378) 282. ULLSWATERKESWICK.

Det INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS GUIDE SEPT. 29th BOYS' PUBLIC SCHOOLS GIRLS' PUBLIC SCHOOLS TUTORIAL COLLEGES S3 CONTINENTAL FURTHERHIGHER EDUCATIONAL SPECIAUST SCHOOLS GIRLS' SCHOOLS BOYS' SCHOOLS ADVISORY SERVICES CO-EDUCATIONAL The Independent Schools Guide appears three times a year, with an Editorial Guide, to otter our readers the best Information possible In this area. The Guide provides a comprehensive range of headings to enable all Independent educational establishments a unique, cost-effective and highly efficient method of reaching our readers. If you control the advertising for an establishment of this nature and you do not know about our Guide, or would simply like to gain further information, call DAVID SOLOMAN ON 01-236 1231 THE APRIL EDITION OF THE GUIDE APPEARS TODAY ON PAGE 31 ferry visits to lona and Fingab Cave. AA listed.

Licensed. Brochure The Tobermory Guest House, lsl of Dungaiow, sleeps 4. lei uo3-40. RIPON YORK ST JOHN. 1985 course information.

0904 5677). ntJAKMF.RR. Hanrnod Hotel. A Mull PA75 6N1. 0688 2091.

small family hotel offering quality! BRICKWALL HOTL, Sed-lescombe, nr Battle, East Susses, Tudor Manor House in picturesque Sussex village. Log fires. Colour TV and teacoffee facilities in all rooms, most en suite. Egon Ronay roc Heated swimming pool (Apr-Oct) Any 2 nights from 40 including and VAT. SpringSummer Breaks available.

Brochure (042487) 253. PfiORSSfONAL OR GQ EXAMS? An RRCH0M STUDY COURSE is the befl wayto pass yourexum. No textbooks rajuired. GCE. Accountancy, Dulling.

BTEC National QrSicsie, BooMieepintCompuiCTStudiB, Industrial Safety Mantaarjent, Law, Scltra. etc Over 375,000 cum successes Many FIRST WINDERMERE. Luxury CH cottages. Col TV. Lake.

09662 3302. TRINITY COLLEGE. Carmarthen course information 0267 237971. WELLS NEXT THE SEA. Small snug cottage, sips 4, and beautifully situated flat, sips 43.

0328 710517. NR. LOCHINVER SUTHERLAND. Very well equipped house, sleeps 8. Available April 20 July 20 and after September 7.

89, Belsize Park Gardens, London NW3. Tel. 01-722 6193. dodio cuoung wuu peiBuntu service in a relaxed atmosphere. Special early season 3 day rate, D.

40. I SELF CATERING reiepnone uvt03 jm. WINDMILL 2 cottages, nr Blake-ney. Superbly converted to sleep 8, 6, 4. 01-883 8137.

PLACES. Write for FREE prospectus ta I SHROPSHIRE THE RAPID RESULTS CO LUCE EASTBOURNE. Comfort and SHAKESPEARE COUNTRY Self-catering holiday flats in parkland setting. Convenient for Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa. On-site swimmins.

tennis, sauash. aolf DeacJIM. Tuition Horn. kndonSWIOiK HESTERWORTH. Country House SECRETARIAL COURSES NR TOBERMORY.

Cottages with superb views river sea loch. Come in June. King, 0688 4270. splendid sc facilities at Davenham i. i GREAT LANGDALE.

Relax in comfort on a friendly Lakeland hill farm. Excellent food and personal service. 14. Special weekly rates. Brochure available.

09667 684. i cc i -i IA or me our Kecoraacu SyviceOI-946 IIMquaingDtpcKEIH noiiaay nats, 78. Loveiy area nr. Ludlow. Brochure 05867 487.

1 1.0BTHUMBRIA I nuusoiiuuuayiiau.siuAi,. auaiwu value. Broch 03212 2419. una. Accredited Lcourses nearby.

90 (2 persons) I SPRING BREAKS I ORCHARD HOUSE, Eastbourne. AA, RAC. En suite rms with col TV. Licensed. 2 day bargain breaks.

D. OBAN, ARGYLL. Glenquaich House, Ardconnel Terr. Overlooking harbour. Lux sc flats, col TV, CH.

Bed linen, sip 2-6. Brochure 0631 63814 (office hours Mon-Fri) 65604 (evenings). EARN A DEGREE entirely at home INTENSIVE SECRETARIAL COURSES. One, two three term. Jan, April or Sept incl Word Processing, Mrs Thomson's, 1 Ewert Place, Oxford.

514718. DURHAM CATHEDRAL is in beautiful Norlhumbria. Discover Northumbria and see the best building in the A complimentary Guide from Dept. OB, 9 Osborne Terrace, Newcastle NE2 INT. ranging igxua porsoiisj per woe.

Mid July to mid-September. Further details from Accommodation Office, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL. Phone 0203 24011 COUNTRY LOVERS I Batu in p.p. uzi ami. LAKE DISTRICTMORECAMBE BAY.

Cottage sleeps 6. Sea views. Well equipped. 80-90 p.w. (not August).

05642 2588. cc lung at, ouuoury, auuouc. ROTT1NGDEAN. Well appointed bungalow, sips 6. Sea 1 ml.

Avail 25 226 248 289 from t4 NORTH EAST London Polytechnic 01-599 0373 (24 hrs). Herefordshire farmhouse in beautiful historic area. Lashings of home Eroduced food. BB EM 11.50. eominster (0568) 2507.

pw, inc 01-250 3678. OXFORD AND COUNTY Secretarial College. Comprehensive 36 week secretarial courses start January September. Word processing. French biBngual course.

College flats and hostel. Prospectus Mrs Reader, 34 St Giles. Oxford. Tel (0865) 51 1404. SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS.

Nr Inverness. Holiday cottages, hillside and woodland chalets, each in different natural setting on a Highland estate. Brochure from M. Fraser, Reelig Glen Kirkhill, Inverness-shire. Tel.

046 383 208 (24 hrs). curies I-weckcourscs. Prospectus LTNDORES. Licensed guest hse, Argyle St, Almouth, Northumberland. 8.50, dinner, 12.50.

Home cooking, cosy atmosphere. 0665 830470. LAKELAND FARM in secluded valley. Lashings of home produced food. HC all rooms.

B.B. 4 course evening dinner 14 inclusive. Dogs welcome. Broughton-in-Furneai (06576) 354. ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES.

Most areas including London. Cottages in scenic locations. Excellent value off season. Taylings Holidays, 14 High St, Godalming (7), Surrey. (04868)28522.

TWO DELIGHTFUL COTTAGES, grounds country house. 2 harirma GOURMET BREAKS. 2 nights incl wine 42. 19th farmhousehotel nr Arundel. (07982) 2498.

vicars Ka, aLonaon yyj. 101. ui 267 9677. I indoor pool, saunajacuzzL 150-250 p.w. 01-352 8088?.