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House-building And Husbandry

Anne Somerset B ESS OF H ARDWICK : F IRST L ADY OF C HATSWORTH by Mary S. Lovell Little, Brown, £20, pp. 555, ISBN 0316724823 ✆ £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 B ess of......

Cracking Up In Beirut

Anna Vaux G RANDMOTHER W OLF by Patricia Tyrrell Weidenfeld, £12.99, pp. 280, ISBN 0297848968 ✆ £11.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 P atricia Tyrrell’s previous book told the......