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The Child Is Father Of The Man

Patrick Marnham LITTLE BOY LOST by Marghanita Laski, with a new afterword by Anne Sebba Persephone Press, 110, pp. 230, ISBN 1903155177 N 0 one in their right mind would attempt......

Gentlefolk Up Against It

Patrick Skene Catling MINNIE'S ROOM by Mollie Panter-Downes Persephone, £10, pp. 125, ISBN 190315524X ollie Panter-Downes (1906-97) for many years was The New Yorker's most......

The Fatal Truce

Blair Worden THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE by Geoffrey Moorhouse Weidenfeld, £25, pp. 448, ISBN 0297643932 O ver the middle third of the 16th century, between 1536 and 1569, the......