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Books

Six of the best Roy Jenkins THE WISE MEN by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas Faber & Faber, £15.95 T his book is based on an excellent conception. It seeks to describe the pleni-......

Back To Their Kangaroots

Jan Morris THE FATAL SHORE by Robert Hughes Collins Harvill, f15.00 R are though they are (still only 15 million of them), and from a habitat mercifully remote, in the world of......