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From Caviar To Cold Tripe

John Colvin FOREIGN FIELDS by Peter Wilkinson I. B. Tauris, £19.95, pp. 250 ti ter Wilkinson was at school with Philip Toynbee. Unlike Lord Lambton, he did not knock him down......

Bedbugs And Cockroaches

Gabriele Annan CHEKHOV: A LIFE by Donald Rayfield HarperCollins, £25, pp. 674 N ovember 1896 at Melikhovo, Chekhov's country estate near Moscow: Lika . . spent four desolate......