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An Awfully Nice Place

Ferdinand Mount Secret Gardens: The Golden Age of Children's Literature Humphrey Carpenter (Allen & Unwin £12.95) T here is a conversation still to be heard now and then which......

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Francis King The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy ed. Michael Millgate (Macmillan Press £30) S ome years ago I was asked by the Times to produce obituaries of some......