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Books

Stranger than he himself knew Philip Hensher RUDYARD KIPLING by Andrew Lycett Weidenfeld, £25, pp. 659 K ipling, in some ways, is a vulgar flirt. Half or more of his immense......

Presenting The Past As Another Place

John Redwood THE ABOLITION OF BRITAIN by Peter Hitchens Quartet, £15, pp. 354 I picked up Peter Hitchens's book with apprehension. Would I tire of those famil- iar arguments......