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The Poor, The Poor

Alan Macfarlane Paupers and Pig Killers: The Diary of William Holland, A Somerset Parson 1799-1818 Edited by Jack Ayres (Allan Sutton £5.95) The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765......

The Wide-eyed Seer

A. N. Wilson The Quest for Merlin Nikolai Tolstoy (Hamish Hamilton £12.95) T spent much of my childhood near the snoozy old market town of Carmarthen, in what used to be......