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The Weedy Wanderer

Philip Hensher R OBERT L OUIS S TEVENSON by Claire Harman HarperCollins, £25, pp. 503, ISBN 0007113218 ✆ £23 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 T he biographers, like eager heirs......

He Was The First To Blink

Derek Scott B ROWN ’ S B RITAIN by Robert Peston Short Books, £14.99, pp. 369, ISBN 1904095674 ✆ £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 T his book illuminates Brown and his......