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A Talent For The Unexpected

Philip Hensher S OME P OETS , A RTISTS AND ‘A R EFERENCE TO M ELLORS ’ by Anthony Powell Timewell Press, £25, pp. 400, ISBN 1857252101 A novelist needn’t know anything, but it’s......

Dics Of Fun Quots

Bevis Hillier A few years back I had an argument with Ned Sherrin (now, but not then, a friend), which I have to say he won. Reviewing the first edition of his Oxford Dictionary......