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A Touch Of Genius

Francis King OP. NON CIT. by Alan Isler Cape, £12.99, pp. 215 D espite the world of fiction being so incestuously cramped, coincidences are more common than plagiarism in it.......

Mr Nice Goes Into The Air Force

Philip French JAMES STEWART I n The Poisoned Crown, Hugh Kingsmill traces the idea of mass consciousness from its powerful embodiment in Byron and Napoleon through a century to......

Stumbling Into Danger

John Jolliffe THE WORLD AT NIGHT T his is Paris before and during the Nazi occupation, surprisingly neglected hitherto as a setting for the dilemmas of agents, double agents,......