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Hunting The Grey Fox

Hugo Williams BURNT DIARIES by Emma Tennant Canongate, £12.99, pp. 231 W ell, should they have been? Did she snatch them back from the flames, thinking to herself, 'No, if he'd......

The Seven Provinces Of A Secret People

Simon Courtauld THE BASQUE HISTORY OF THE WORLD by Mark Kurlansky Cape, f15.99, pp. 387 T his book has a rather grandiose title. True, Basque fishermen were among the first from......