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In Praise Of Unwanted Gerundives

Philip Womack A MO , A MAS , A MAT ... A ND A LL T HAT : H OW TO B ECOME A L ATIN L OVER by Harry Mount Short Books, £12.99, pp. 269, ISBN 1904977545 ✆ £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p)......

Carrying On With Gusto

Jonathan Cecil HELLO! by Leslie Phillips Orion, £18.99, pp. 406, ISBN 0752868896 ✆ £15.19 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 ‘W hen you reach your seventies,’ mused a once......