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Build, Unbuild, Contrive To Save Appearances

Hugh Massingberd THE BUILDINGS OF IRELAND: NORTH LEINSTER by Christine Casey and Alistair Rowan Penguin, 130, pp. 576 I t has been a long wait for the second volume in the......

Paddy

Moustached, beer-bellied, well able To carry a grudge with grace, He seemed like the perfect foreman — A carpenter easily assessing The grain of the men's mood, His rebuff 'I......

Cool Language Of Webs

Oliver Rackham THE BOOK OF THE SPIDER: FROM ARACHNOPHOBIA TO THE LOVE OF SPIDERS by Paul Hillyard Hutchinson, £16.99, pp. 196 O ver the years I have had plenty of fun with......