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Books

A weakness for gossip Byron Rogers ELIZABETH by Sarah Bradford Heinemann, £20, pp. 564 Y ou may remember the bolt action of the adjectives with which the Earl of Clarendon......

Coup De Grass

Christian Caryl EIN WEITES FELD by Gunter Grass Steidl Verlag, Gottingen, DM 49.80, pp. 781 I magine that you're a left-leaning writer and you want to write a novel satirising......