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Daring To Be Different

Timothy Mo BILLY BATHGATE by E. L. Doctorow Macmillan, £12.95, pp. 325 ome novelists make a happy career of writing the same book a dozen times. That is, the works may have new......

A Martyr Claimed By Many Causes

Kevin Sharpe THE PORCUPINE: THE LIFE OF ALGERNON SIDNEY by John Carswell John Murray, £16.95, pp,304 A n important ingredient of historical renown is a good death. Death alone......