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A Roving Ambassador For Culture

Peter Clark FOREIGN STRANDS: A BRITISH COUNCIL JOURNEY by Stephen Alexander Meffiotts Press, 174 Long Ashton Road, Bristol, BS41 9L T, tel: 01275 392347, .110, pp. 262, ISBN......

Good Old Africa Hand

Aidan Hartley EVERY MEAL A BANQUET, EVERY NIGHT A HONEYMOON by Peter L. Younghusband Jonathan Ball Publishers, South African Rands, 139.95, pp. 347. ISBN 1868421678 p eter Youn......

A Failed Kiss Of Life

Stephen Abell CHAUCER: BRIEF LIVES by Peter Ackroyd Chatto, £12.99, pp. 144, ISBN 0701169850 F or a writer or critic to describe somethin g as 'interestin g ' is, of course,......