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Playing The Game A. N. Wilson

A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS: A LIFE OF A. L. ROWSE by Richard 011ard Allen Lane, £20, pp. 367 T here was an artless, if spirited article recently in one of the popular papers with......

Flaubert's Parrot Singing A New Tune

Gilbert Adair GEMMA BOVERY by Posy Simmonds Cape, L14.99, pp. 106 G emma Bovery was initially published as a daily serial in the Guardian. In that form, I have to say, and much......