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A most uncommon woman Alan Watkins DARING TO HOPE: THE DIARIES AND LETTERS OF VIOLET BONHAM CARTER, 1946-1969 edited by Mark Pottle Weidenfeld, £25, pp. 431 0 ne of the curious......

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Jan Morris THE WILDEST DREAM: MALLORY, HIS LIFE AND CONFLICTING PASSIONS by Peter and Leni Gillman Headline, £18.99, pp. 320 W e've knocked the bastard off,' famously said Ed......

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