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Getting Back To Basics

Thomas Wright FIVE MORAL PIECES by Umberto Eco Seeker, £10, pp. 111, ISBN 0436410591 C harles Lamb wrote that no one ever lays down a newspaper without feeling disappointment.......

Our Northern Alliance

Magnus Linklater THE SCOTTISH EMPIRE by Michael Fry Tackwell Press, £30, pp. 608, ISBN 186232185 W hat was it that gave the Scots, a country of less than two million people at......

Lost On The Page

Richard Shone ON THE WAY TO WORK by Damien Hirst and Gordon Burn Faber, £25, pp. 232, ISBN 0571202578 I n almost every generation of British artists, there is one figure who......