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Game For A Fight In The Country

Michael Wharton THE LONG AFFRAY: THE POACHING WARS IN BRITAIN by Harry Hopkins Seeker & Warburg, £12.95 T here is no doubt which side the author is on in this fascinating,......

Books

A proper study Laurence Lerner ALEXANDER POPE: A LIFE by Maynard Mack Yale, £15.95 W hen Alexander Pope died in 1744 he had long been England's leading poet. As a Roman......

Corporate Luncheon

The tail-coated banqueting maitre d'hotel Proffers a napkin round potato crisps. I wave the thing away, but later think That they were very likely rather good, Far above even......