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Books

The oak and the melon Colin Welch GOODWOOD'S OAK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THIRD DUKE OF RICHMOND, LENNOX AND AUBIGNY by M. M. Reese Threshold Books, £19.95 P eople in your......

Excess And Reticence

James Simmons CIVIL TO STRANGERS by Barbara Pym Macmillan, f11.95 CHANGES OF ADDRESS by Lee Langley Collins, f9.95 THE UNDERBELLY by Duncan Fallowell Macmillan, f10.95 CHINESE......