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An Unerring Eye For The Main Chance

D. J. Taylor THE BOSS: THE MANY SIDES OF ALEX FERGUSON by Michael Crick Simon & Schuster, £17.99, pp. 624, ISBN 0743207483 h ere comes a moment in the life of most......

A Woman And Wife Vindicated

Cressida Connolly A GIRL FROM THE FICTION DEPARTMENT by Hilary Spurling Hamish Hamilton, £9.99, pp. 208, ISBN 0241141656 I f Orwell's biographers are to be believed, his second......