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Exorcisms

Conor Cruise O'Brien Ireland: The Union and its Aftermath Oliver MacDonagh (Allen and Unwin £6.50) This is a revised and extended version of a book first published in 1967.......

Anti-biography

Pat Rogers Nabokov: His Life In Part Andrew Field (Hamish Hamilton E8.50) The real life of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov would be a fine thing to contemplate, but the master......