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An Enchanted Forest Of Family Trees

Hilary Spurling MOSAIC by Michael Holroyd Little, Brown, £17.99, pp. 304, ISBN 0316725056 M ichael Holroyd describes the first copy of his last book of memoirs plopping through......

God's Expeditionary Force

Ian Thomson THE JESUITS by Jonathan Wright HarperCollins,120, pp. 334, ISBN 0002571803 1 n the 16th century Montaigne voiced the fear that missionary endeavour the white man's......

A Selection Or Recent

paperbacks Non-fiction: Hilaire Belloc by A. N. Wilson, Gibson Square Books, £9.99 Overlord by Max Hastings, Pan, £7.99 Even As We Speak: New Essays, 1993-2001 by Clive James,......