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Not Much Balm In Swiss Cottage

Alan Wall THE STRANGE CASE OF DR SIMMONDS & DR GLAS by Dannie Abse Robson Books, £14.95, pp. 195, ISBN 1861055048 D annie Abse has a number of identities, and he's never seemed......

Taming The Wilderness

Hugh Brogan MEASURING AMERICA by Andra Linklater HarperCollins, £17.99, pp. 312, ISBN 0007108877 A ll historians agree that their subject is intrinsically exciting; the problem......