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Letting The Good

Times roll Magnus Linklater THE HISTORY OF THE TIMES: THE THOMSON YEARS 1966-1981 by John Grigg Times Books, £25, pp. 632 hen the official history of the Times was begun in 1935......

A Painter At Home

Frances Partridge SELECTED =ERS OF VANESSA BELL edited by Regina Marler Bloomsbury, 125, pp. 593 W hat is one to do,' writes Vanessa Bell to her sister Virginia after reading......

How The Rich Suffered

Janet Barron CONFUSION by Elizabeth Jane Howard Macmillan, £14.99, pp. 385 I t's a nice little book you can read lying on your back,' a character in Confusion says to her......