27 DECEMBER 1968, page 20

Nuisance Value

MICHAEL ROBERTS There have been many biographies of Queen Christina; so many of them written by women that one is tempted to diagnose a variety of female weakness. Most of them......

Man And Boy

JOHN ROWAN WILSON There is a good deal to be said for reading biographies backwards. Quite apart from the advantage of putting off that dreadful opening chapter on 'Early Years'......

Big Game

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