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Not Just An Irksome Swede

Hugo Vickers GARBO by Barry Paris Sidgwick & Jackson, £20, pp. 654 B any Paris is one of the few film-star biographers who writes with style and panache and does not get bogged......

An Olfactory Masterpiece

Patrick Skene Catling DONKEY'S YEARS: MEMORIES OF A LIFE AS STORY TOLD by Aldan Higgins Secker, £14.99, pp. 336 A idan Higgins husbands his literary resources. There is a lot of......

The Cross As The Focus Of Longing

John Colvin A TIMELESS PASSION by Naim Attallah Quartet, £10, pp. 146 N aim Attallah is that rare bird in English skies, a Roman Catholic Arab from Palestine. He has managed......