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Coal, Quays And Caste11 Coch

Kenneth Q. Morgan Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute John Davies (University of Wales Press pp. 335, £12.95) The Butes were a unique industrial dynasty, robber barons on the......

Muscle Peaks

Paul Ableman The Noble Enemy Charles Fox (Granada pp.383,i6.95) This is a first novel that reads like the work of a mature novelist at the height of his powers. It is quite......