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Avoiding A Constipated Dromedary

Caroline Moorehead MY APPOINTMENT WITH THE MUSE: ESSAYS, 1961-1975 by Paul Scott Heinemann, £14.95 F or the last 18 years of his life, from the age of 40 when he stopped being a......

Dead Hill

You argued up that dead hill's streaming side, You blamed and queried all the way. And so did I. You grumbled while you scrambled at the top, You neither glanced nor gazed But......

Tintin, Unappealing But Supreme

William Joll THE VALLEY OF THE COBRAS: THE ADVENTURES OF JO, ZEITE AND JOCK° by Herge Methuen, £4.95 L ike most modern-day publishers, the house of Methuen is currently in close......