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The Macmillan Generation

Michael Portillo A LITTLE BIT OFF THE TOP: A BIOGRAPHY OF S. S. HAMMERSLEY by Barbara Jill Poloniecka The Book Guild, £15, pp. 192 F or a few months during the war, my mother......

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A slippery but electric eel David Hughes LAWRENCE DURRELL by Ian MacNiven Faber, f25, pp. 801 A lunch with Lawrence Durrell used to last seven hours and seven bottles. We then......