Preface by David Crystal. Presents brief biographies of 65 index-makers since the 15th century. Outlines the history of indexing groups and societies to 1995

... a book of sketches, nine in total, all of them amusing and all of them very short ...- Tregolwyn Book Reviews

The story of how a son on his way to a musical theatre career -- takes over the family garage as a children's theatre-- fills the house with recording equipment and touring actors in sleeping bags-- casts a production of The Rocky Horror Show from home-- tours the Continent in the rock musical, Hair-- settles as an impresaro in Vienna while his mother was compiling indexes, writing books and articles and editing learned journals.

The Virgin in the Garden / Still Life and Babel Tower / A Whistling Woman

It provides an interesting picture of the interface between the amateur and professional stage immediately after the Second World War, with the list of her parts from 1947 to 1958 demonstrating the variety of shows staged by the companies she appeared with. As well as personal recollections of her performances, there are her own reminiscences of being a film extra, the recording of a play, appearing as a contestant in TV panel games, together with short extracts from her writing, much of which was tailored for women's groups.- from Theatre Notebook Volume 60 Number 1, 2006

Thirteen essays by different authors on the theme of the Anglo-Catholic Church in the life and work of the novelist Barbara Pym, considering clergymen and their ways, clergy wives, celibacy, Victorian hymns, London churches, and the dangerous lure of Roman Catholicism.

The book is a selection of the author's weekly articles in The Gibraltar Magazine, divided into 14 sections dealing with a wide range of subjects from words and language to the brain to politics to women to travel in India et cetera. Individual pieces deal with matters as varied as extreme cases of autism, death by stoning, feral children, myth as opposed to reality and the need for nonsense.

a selection of entries from Hazel's 1949 diary ... represent a valuable historical document as well as being entertaining to read. - Tregolwyn Book Reviews

. . .a valuable social document. . .if you thought Angela Brazil just made it all up, think again! - Tregolwyn Book Reviews

It is another valuable record of English social history in the mid-twentieth century. - Society of Indexers' Newsletter No. 3, Autumn 2007