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The Dilettante Is A Professional

Allan Massie COASTWISE LIGHTS by Alan Ross Collins Harvill, £12.50, pp.254 P oet, racehorse owner, cricket corres- pondent, traveller and editor for more than a quarter of a......

And All The Trappings

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