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A Love Story Against All The Odds

Julian Mitchell BASIL STREET BLUES by Michael Holroyd Little, Brown, £17.50, pp. 306 O n the first page of Basil Street Blues, Michael Holroyd says he took up biogra- phy from a......

The Houses Of Mammon

Gavin Stamp THE RISE OF THE NOUVEAUX RICHES by J. Mordaunt Crook John Murray, £25, pp. 354 A rchitectural history can be rather a limited pursuit. Much of it is little better......