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From Agony To Ecstasy

Jane Gardam LETTERS TO HENRIETTA by Isabella Bird, edited by Kay Chubbuck John Murray, £25, pp. 356, ISBN 0719560470 T his is a selection of the original letters written in the......

Obsessive, Compulsive Behaviour

David Hughes TO HAVE AND TO HOLD by Philipp Blom Allen Lane, £18.99, pp. 274, ISBN 0713994762 T he young author of this survey of our childlike passion for grabbing a thing and......

All The World Wondered

Anthony Mockler AMEDEO by Sebastian O'Kelly HarperCollin.v, £18.99, pp. 333, ISBN 0002572192 E very cavalryman must envy the hero of this book. Between 1936 and 1941 he led no......