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Vivid Blooms With European Roots

Francis King DEREK WALCOTT: A CARIBBEAN LIFE by Bruce King OUP, £30, pp. 688 W hen Derek Walcott, the subject of this doorstep of a biography, won the 1992 Nobel Prize for......

Definitely Not A Fool

Douglas Johnson THE RISE AND FALL OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE VOLUME I: THE RISE by Robert Asprey Little, Brown and Co, £25, pp. 580 N apoleon Bonaparte has too often been the victim......