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Post-war England

A. L. Rowse Caves of ice James Lees-Milne (Chatto & Windus £12.95) J ames Lees-Milne is a diarist as accomp- lished as he is beguiling. His previous two volumes of diary gave us......

Indianapolitan

Francis King G arrulous, colloquial, perky, skittish and arch, Kurt Vonnegut's preface to this novel, laid out in seven sections, each four paragraphs long on average, reads......

Peddling

Patrick Skene Catling Full Tilt: Ireland to India on a Bicycle Dervla Murphy (Century £4.95) T ravel books are revealing works of autobiography, whether the authors in - tend......