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Trumpeter For King And Country

Juliet Townsend T HE L ETTERS OF R UDYARD K IPLING : V OLUME V, 1920-1930, V OLUME VI, 1931-36 edited by Thomas Pinney Palgrave/Macmillan, £55 each, Volume V, pp. 584, Volume......

A Big-headed Dick

Stephen Abell C OLLECTED N OVELS , V OLUME I by Paul Auster Faber, £25, pp. 659, ISBN 0671224490 ✆ £23 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 C ITY OF G LASS by Paul Auster, adapted by......

Nothing To Do

I’m here in the hotel By the sea With nothing to do. But how do you do that nothing? I never did it before. Tell me how you begin and what’s involved? My heart isn’t in the job,......