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Smoothing The Rough Edges

Jonathan Keates BRIAN MOORE: A BIOGRAPHY by Patricia Craig Bloomsbury, £20, pp. 306, ISBN 0747560048 M uch is made by writers these days of the need for 'getting distance', for......

Not Rushing To Judgment

Richard 01lard BRITAIN IN REVOLUTION, 1625-1660 by Austin Woolrych OUP, £25, pp, 814, ISBN 0198200811 I t is hard to overpraise this admirable — indeed one would have thought......

The Price Of Admission

Tam Dalyell MINISTRIES OF DECEPTION by Tim Slessor Aurum, £16.99, pp. 303, ISBN 1854108778 I first met Tim Slessor when we were contemporary undergraduates at Cambridge, half a......