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The Ninth Portrait

Matthew d'Ancona COURAGE: EIGHT PORTRAITS by Gordon Brown Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 244, ISBN 9780747565321 Ivhat happens when the big clunking fist picks up the historian's pen?......

The Ascent From Boots Library

Jonathan Keates THE DAPHNE Du MAURIER COMPANION edited by Helen Taylor Virago, £9.99, pp. 424, ISBN 9781844082353 here was a time not so very long ago when a sustained......