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Remote Pitt

Robert Blake Pitt the Younger Robin Reilly (Cassell £9.95) William Pitt the younger is generally agreed to have been one of England's greatest prime ministers, but he is also......

Wreckage

Peter Ackroyd A D.H. Lawrence Companion F.B. Pinion (Macmillan £15) There is an aspect of Lawrence's character which doesn't quite fit the conventional image of him as the......