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Top Marks For Charisma

Jonathan Cecil OLIVIER: T HE A UTHORISED B IOGRAPHY by Terry Coleman Bloomsbury, £20, pp. 607, ISBN0747577986 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 I n the delightful......

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A Selection Of Recent Paperbacks

Non-fiction: The Strange Death of Tory England by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Penguin, £8.99 History Play by Rodney Bolt, HarperPerennial, £8.99 The Rare and the Beautiful: The Lives......