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The Shadowy Father Of Oscar

Philip Glazebrook RAFFLES AND HIS CREATOR by Peter Rowland Nekta Publications, £11.95, pp. 306 T his audacious biography — the life of a writer who left no 'papers' — breaks new......

The Holy Fool Of The Desert

Roger Lewis GOD'S FUGITIVE: THE LIFE OF C. M. DOUGHTY by Andrew Taylor HarperCollins, £17.99, pp. 351 I often wonder whether the presiding genius of the 19th century wasn't......