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Funny-peculiar

Francis King When 1 Was Otherwise Stephen Benatar (Bodley Head £7.95) F rom time to time, as the eye skims across the shallows of the daily newspaper, it is hooked by a small......

Books

The Austen family Elizabeth Jenkins A Goodly Heritage: A History of Jane Austen's Family George Holbert Tucker (Carcanet Press £9.95) fictor Gollancz used to say that while V it......

Dreadlocks

Andrew Brown Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley Timothy White (Elm Tree Books £9.95) B ob Marley, a Jamaican mulatto who died in 1981 of cancer in the liver, l ungs, and......