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In All His Words Most Wonderful

Jane Gardam THE LIFE OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE by Rosemary Ashton Blackwell, £25, pp. 480 W riting a life of Coleridge must be like trying to harness a cloud, a drifting cloud,......

Publish And Be Rich

Jonathan Keates SEBASTIAN WALKER: 1942-1991: A KIND OF PROSPERO by Mirabel Cecil Walker Books, £14.99, pp. 185 S ebastian Walker was one of the most consistently successful......