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Committee Man

ELIZABETH WISKEMANN Antonio Gramsci and the Origins of Italian Communism John Cammett (Stanford/OUP 28s) Freedom has no Frontier Joyce Lussu (Michael Joseph, 35s) Antonio......

Forsyth Saga

AUBERON WAUGH The Biafra Story Frederick Forsyth (Pen- guin 6s) There are not many things about the Biafran war to make anyone particularly proud of being English, but even the......

New Novels

Squibs & pastels HENRY TUBE Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts Donald Barthelme (Cape 25s) House of the Sleeping Beauties Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Edward G. Seiden-......