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All Gas And Gaiters

Diana Hendry K EPT : A V ICTORIAN M YSTERY by D. J. Taylor Chatto, £16.99, pp. 431, ISBN 0701178957 ✆ £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 I t’s irrelevant, I know, but I can’t......

After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?

M. R. D. Foot T HOSE W HO T RESPASS A GAINST U S by Countess Karolina Lanckoronska, translated by Noel Clark Pimlico, £14.99, pp. 341, ISBN 1844134172 ✆ £11.99 (plus £2.45 p&p)......

The Composer And His Phoenix

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