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When Auntie Was Young And Carefree

P. J. Kavanagh STEPHEN POTTER AT THE BBC by Julian Potter Orford Books, Orford, Suffolk IP 122 NR, Tel: 01394 450392, £20, pp.221, ISBN 0954665309 S tephen Potter, author, radio......

A Thick Celtic Mist

John de Falbe SHADE by Neil Jordan John Murray, £16.99, pp. 317, ISBN 0179561868 A review copy of Shade comes with two pages of admonitory blurb about what an important......

Stop, Thief!

'You swine, you bastard, upstart, shit and fake, A seedy conman, always on the make.' Will that be all?' I asked. 'No, silly fart, A thief as well, because you stole my heart.'......

Different Heavens, Same Hells

James Buchan FROM BABEL TO DRAGOMANS by Bernard Lewis Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 438, ISBN 0297848844 N ow in his late eighties, Bernard Lewis is one of the last representatives of a......