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The Fabulous Baker Boys

Michael Glover IMPERIAL VANITIES by Brian Thompson HarperCollins, £17.99. pp. 271, ISBN 0002571889 h is piece of fairly frothy historymaking, a rollicking good 'human-interest......

The Captain And The Deflater

Sara Wheeler CAPTAIN COOK: OBSESSION AND BETRAYAL IN THE NEW WORLD by Vanessa Collingridge Ebuty, £17.99, pp. 376, ISBN 0091879132 G iven the appetite of our troubled times for......