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The County Personified

Juliet Townsend T HE L ORD -L IEuTENANTS AND THEIR D EPuTIES by Miles Jebb Phillimore, £25, pp. 216, ISBN 9781860774515 O ne of the glories of British public life is the way in......

The Short Life And Hard Times Of A Mathematical Genius

Alexander Masters T HE I NDIAN C LERK by David Leavitt Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 485, ISBN 9780747581680 ✆ £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Any proof pleases me: if I could......

No Interruptions

I cannot wholly decide about my father’s resolve not to speak or seek out texts or make arrangements except perhaps to the pillow and the blankets. Was it for him, or for us, or......