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The Revolutionary, The President, The Playwright

Victor Sebestyen T O THE C ASTLE AND B ACK by Václav Havel Portobello Books, £20, pp. 383, ISBN 9781846271373 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 A troika of heroic Slavic......

A House And Its History

Paula Byrne M ADRESFIELD : T HE R EAL B RIDESHEAD by Jane Mulvagh Dovecote Press, £20, pp. 384, ISBN9781904349587 ✆ £16(plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 T he new Brideshead......