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The Sweet Youth Of `bird'

Duncan Fallowell TOM: THE UNKNOWN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS by Lyle Leverich Hodder, £25, pp. 644 T ennessee Williams became successful at the age of 34 with the triumph of The Glass......

He Spied With His Little Eye?

John Colvin DID MARCO POLO GO TO CHINA? by Frances Wood Secker, £14.99, pp. 182 T wenty years ago, under a blue sky, the four tortoises marking the guard posts of Genghis Khan,......

The Wheel Is Come Full Circle

Jonathan Cecil A KNIGHT ERRANT by Robert Stephens Hodder, £16.99, pp. 224 R obert Stephens was a rip, a repro- bate, a rapscallion; a hell-raising actor in the mode of Edmund......