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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......

Russia's Squalid Backyard

Charlotte Hobson TO CATCH A TARTAR by Chris Bird John Murray, £17.99, pp. 304, ISBN 0719560276 e always were English, and always will be English, and it's just because we're......