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Faint Thin Line Upon The Shore

Alethea Hayter George Meredith: His Life and Lost Love David Williams (Hamish Hamilton £7.95) When James Barrie came to London in the 1880s, his first pilgrimage to a literary......

Gangperson

Anthony Holden Comrade Chiang Ch'ing Roxane WItke (Weldenfeld £6.95) Whilst chronicling the travels of a very different political female last March, I carried a proof copy of......