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Monsters And

dragons P. J. Kavanagh BEOWULF translated by Seamus Heaney Faber, £14.99, pp. 106 There is an Irish flavour to Seamus Heaney's translation from the An g lo-Saxon which is......

Bloodstains And Green Ink

Andrew Roberts THE QUEST FOR C by Alan Judd HarperCollins, £19.99, pp. 501 A t 9pm on 2 October 1914, Alistair Cummin g , a 24-year-old subaltern in the Seaforth Highlanders,......