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A Return To The Grand Themes

Raymond Carr P ENULTIMATE A DVENTURES WITH B RITANNIA : P ERSONALITIES , P OLITICS AND C ULTURE IN B RITAIN by Wm. Roger Louis I.B. Tauris, £35, pp. 320, ISBN 9781845116934 B......

Pulp Fiction For The Intelligent

S. E. G. Hopkin T HE M ETATEMPORAL DETECTIVE by Michael Moorcock Prometheus Books, £17.99, pp. 327, ISBN 9781591025962 T he late Alan Coren once called a collection of articles......

We Being Ghosts

Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked By various diseases of the intellect Or failing body. How am I still upright? And even I sleep half the day, cough half the......