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Sky Writing

Peter Ackroyd Journey Into Fire Patricia Wright (Collins £4.95) Historical novelists always run the risk of being engulfed in vast processes which they barely understand. I......

Scorer

Benny Green Dixie Dean Nick Walsh (Macdonald £4.95) In admonishing a famous athlete for having composed an autobiography, Bernard Shaw cited the example of the Quaker George......