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Puppet Show

Frances Hill Morning Star Simon Raven (Blond & Briggs £8.95) T his is strictly a novel for addicts. New readers are unlikely to push their way far through the tangle of heavy,......

The Glowing Phoenix

Peter Quennell The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain Edited by Kenneth 0. Morgan (Oxford University Press £15) A full-scale history of any great country is apt to resemble......