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Knight's Tale

CHARLES REID Sir Henry Wood: A Biography Reginald Pound (Cassell 55s) This readable and revealing book begins un-, pretentiously, collating and filling in rather than......

New Novels

In retreat BARRY COLE Monk Dawson Piers Paul Read Alison 1' 30s) The Hired Man Melvyn Bragg (Seeker Warburg 30s) Equilibrium Tonino Guerra translated Eric Mosbacher (Chatto and......

All's Wellington

cA ROLA OMAN A Regency Elopement Hugh Fa rmar (Michael Joseph 35s) The Life and Times of Colgultoun Grant Jock Haswell (Hamish Hamilton 45s) The bicentenary of the birth of......