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Sabres And Rose Petals

Mark Archer GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO: DEFIANT ANGEL by John Woodhouse Clarendon Press, £25, pp. 406 H ad D'Annunzio not led his march on Fiume in 1919, his career would have merited......

Carry On Up The Lake

Andrew Barrow WOBEGON BOY by Garrison Keillor Faber, £16.99, pp. 305 T his is rather a confusing book: self- confidently shapeless, overpoweringly well informed and occasionally......