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Adjusting The Martyr's Crown

A. D. Nuttall THE LIFE OF THOMAS MORE by Peter Ackroyd Chatto, £20, pp. 436 E rasmus belonged to no country; More was always a Londoner and an Englishman.' Peter Ackroyd's......

Hard Labour In Hard Covers

Tony Gould LIT ED by Anthony Curtis Carcanet, £25, pp. 374 I was literary editor or, as we called it, books editor on, first, New Society and then the amalgamated New Statesman......