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Handshakes And Headaches

Sam Phipps SPEAK CLEARLY INTO THE CHANDELIER by John C. Q. Roberts Curzon, £25, pp. 259 J ohn Roberts became director of the Great Britain-USSR Association (now the......

Bodging Away In Essex

Hugh Massingberd OUT OF THE VALLEY by Ronald Blythe Viking, £16.99, pp. 304 W ormingford, a village in the pic- turesque Stour Valley, is actually situated in, ahem, Essex — an......