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Man Of Fiction, Not Action

Richard West THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES, VOLUMES I-III by John Buchan, edited by Andrew Lownie Thistle Publishing, £20 each L ike many people who early on in life were......

Pop Goes The Nation

Jonathan Keates ENGLAND IS MINE by Michael Bracewell HarperCollins, £18, pp. 245 E nglishness is up for grabs. Everyone nowadays wants to give you their version of it, not......

The Last Time I Saw Parris. . .

Norman Tebbit I COULDN'T POSSIBLY COMMENT by Matthew Parris Robson, £14.95, pp. 264 T ying to read this anthology of Matthew Parris's sketches is like trying to make a meal of a......