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Who Said What About What

Geoffrey Wheatcroft THE TIMES BOOK OF QUOTATIONS Times Books, £19.99, pp. 832 THE NEW PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF MODERN QUOTATIONS edited by Robert Andrews Penguin, £18.99, pp. 598......

Haunters Of The Margins

Sara Maitland TROUBLESOME THINGS: A HISTORY OF FAIRIES AND FAIRY STORIES by Diane Purkiss Penguin, £20, pp. 356 h e cultural history of . . .' has become one of the great......