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The Pleasures Of Peripolitania

Alan Coren SEMI-DETACHED by Griff Rhys Jones Michael Joseph, £20, pp. 324, ISBN 0718146263 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 W ere you to look up the word ‘peripolitan’ in......

Around The World In 80 Years

Nicholas Haslam P OINT TO P OINT N AVIGATION by Gore Vidal Doubleday, £17.99, pp. 277, ISBN 0316027278 ✆ £14.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 T wo summers ago at La Rondinaia,......