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Books

Losing his bearings Martin Vander Weyer ROGUE TRADER by Nick Leeson Little Brown, £16.99, pp. 265 THE COLLAPSE OF BARINGS by Stephen Fay Richard Cohen Books, OD, pp. 298 T......

The Graveyard School

Life is no laughing matter. We entered crying and Melancholy marked us for her own. Our birth-day was the day we started dying. Urn-shaped our souls, our fate to wander sighing......

Prolix Chronicler Of His Times

J. Enoch Powell ZOLA: A LIFE by Frederick Brown Macmillan, f25, pp. 888 I have made it a habit for as many years as I remember to take with me on my annual holiday in France the......