Sunday 3 September 2017

Random Cutting - What London is Reading (1958)


Reblogged from my newspaper collection blog (mhill46-holdthefrontpage.blogspot.co.uk)

Evening Standard dated Tuesday September 9th 1958

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The top 6 best selling books of the week included Boris Pasternak, Nevile Shute and H E Bates.

Either we were better read in those days or there was very little choice. Certainly no Jamie Oliver cook-books or ghost written ‘celebrity’ memoirs.

I was a mere 12 years-old at the time and hadn't progressed beyond The Eagle comic.

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