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Roundheads And Cavaliers

Daniel Hannan THE COUSINS' WAR: RELIGION, POLITICS AND THE TRIUMPH OF ANGLO-AMERICA by Kevin Phillips Basic Books, £24.50, pp. 707 T he English civil war, the American......

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......