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Too Much And Too Late

Peregrine Worsthorne SPLENDID! SPLENDID!: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIE WHITELAW by Mark Garnett and Ian Aitken Cape, £20, pp, 386, ISBN 0224063111 B y the criteria of the......

Our Man In The Thick Of It

Justin Marozzi NEWS FROM NO MAN'S LAND: REPORTING THE WORLD by John Simpson Macmillan, £20. pp. 496, ISBN 0333905741 T here he is on the cover, our handsome 57-year-old Boys'......

Camera Picta Mantegna Frescoes In Mantua

Within that room in Mantua The teeming walls, the gold, the red, The painted curtain drawn aside Ask who now lives and who is dead? The weighty, proud Gonzaga men, The surging......