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A Man Who Asked The Right Questions

Jane Rye LONDON RECORDINGS by David Sylvester Chalk), £22, pp. 202, ISBN 0701162678 D avid Sylvester's first ambition was to be a professional cricketer, and he possessed to the......

A Glutton For Work

D. J. Taylor ORWELL: THE 'OBSERVER' YEARS Observer Books/ Atlantic, £12, pp. 272, ISBN 1843542609 G eorge Orwell started writing for the Observer in 1942, brought there by the......