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A Bestseller And A House

Anita Brookner DAPHNE DU MAURIER by Margaret Forster Chatto, f17.99, pp. 476 I suspect that if Daphne du Maurier had been born on a council estate, the third child of a plumber......

Better Than Haig Or Monty?

John Grigg IMPERIAL WARRIOR: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT ALLENBY, 1861-1936 by Lawrence James Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20, pp. 279 I n June 1917 Edmund Allenby......