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Cycling Uphill

Cycling uphill, you leading masterful rhythmic kneading of the the rough country air into slipstreams of hair all this energy in gear every muscle-stroke clear and fluid as......

Books

The polyglot of Hallam Street William Trevor WILLIAM GERHARDIE by Dido Davies OUP, £25, pp. 432 ho is William Gerhardie?', I re- member enquiring in a London pub some time in......

Regretting At Leisure

Elizabeth Longford THE KING'S WIFE: FIVE QUEEN CONSORTS by Robert Gray Secker & Warburg, f17.95, pp.367 T he moral of this royal saga is clear: never be a queen consort. One can......