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Life Of A Best-seller

A. L. Rowse DAPHNE: A PORTRAIT OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER by Judith Cook Bantam Press, £15.99, pp.321 T his is a true portrait, as anyone who knew Daphne Du Maurier can testify :......

Books

The new Elizabethans Eric Christiansen THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY VERSE chosen and edited by Emrys Jones OUP, £25, pp. 769 T h _ hese anthologies keep rolling out.......