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Books

C oleridge had already walked 40-odd miles through Somerset when he first caught sight of Wordsworth's house, Race- down Lodge, a Georgian box in the valley below him. Instead......

When The Crying Had To Stop

Hugo Vickers COCO: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF GABRIELLE CHANEL by Frances Kennett Victor Gollancz, £16.95, pp.160 B ettina Ballard described Chanel as 'the only couturier who spanned......

Parted Are Those Who Were Singing That Day

David Wright WAR LIKE A WASP: THE LOST DECADE OF THE FORTIES by Andrew Sinclair Hamish Hamilton, £17.95, pp.352 THE WAR DECADE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE 1940s by Andrew Sinclair......