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A Butterfly Upon A Wheel

John Jolliffe AMPHIBIOUS THINGS: THE LIFE OF LORD HERVEY by Lucy Moore Viking, £20, pp. 376 L ord Hervey is most widely known for the vitriolic hatred which he inspired in Pope,......

Murder By A Tapeworm

Geoffrey Wheatcroft A MOUTHFUL OF BROKEN GLASS by Henk van Woerden, translated by Dan Jacobson Granta, £12.99, pp. 176 I n 1966 one of the most dramatic assassi- nations took......