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All Passion Spent

Philip Ziegler BALFOUR: THE LAST GRANDEE by R. J. Q. Adams John Murray, £30, pp. 479, ISBN 97807193541247 © £24 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Sargent's portrait of Balfour,......

A Choice Of Cookery Books

Elfreda Pownall Let's start in the garden. This year cookery writers are as happy digging and planting as slicing and braising. Sarah Raven is a great gardener and, on the......