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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......

Putting Bradford On The Map

Francis King B RIGHT D AY by J. B. Priestley Great Northern, £14.99, pp. 320, ISBN 1905080182 ✆ £11.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 T his is one of the three best of J. B.......

Pea-soupers And Telegraphic Paralysis

Judith Flanders A D ICTIONARY OF V ICTORIAN L ONDON : A N A-Z OF THE G REAT METROPOLIS by Lee Jackson Anthem Press, £12.99, pp. 180, ISBN 1843312301 ✆ £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p)......