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A Victorian Girl

Harriet Waugh Onlookers Gillian Avery (Collins £6.95) G illian Avery's second adult novel, Onlookers, is a quiet tour de force em- bracing two comedies of errors, one set in......

Decline And Fall

Michael Wharton Three Six Seven: Memoirs of a Ver y Important Man Peter Vansittart (Peter Owen £8.95) rr he disintegration of the Roman Empire I —no coherent succession of......