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Homage To A. B. Roger

Robert Oakeshott BEYOND NAB END by William Woodruff Abacus, £6.99. pp. 312, ISBN 0349116229 Woodruff you have not come to Oxford to take examinations, you have come to learn.......

When Irish Eyes Were Smiling

Miranda France THE EMPRESS OF SOUTH AMERICA by Nigel Cawthorne Heinemann, 112.99, pp. 314, ISBN 0434008982 THE SHADOWS OF ELISA LYNCH by Sian Rees Review. £14.99, pp. 343, ISBN......

Looking And Looking Away

Andrew Gimson ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION by W. G. Sebald Hamish Hamilton, £16.99, pp. 206, ISBN 0241141265 S ebald is perturbed by the almost complete failure of......