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Inside Job

Martin JARRETT-KERR The Roman Catholic Church John L. McKenzie, SJ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 63s) How do you write a book on a living faith for a series called, like this one,......

Private Lives

PETER VANSITTART Edward Thomas: A Critical Biography William Cooke (Faber 50s) My Life and Times: Octave 9 Compton Mackenzie (Chatto and Windus 45s) My Father: Joseph Conrad......

Goodly King

DAVID KNOWLES Philip the Good Richard Vaughan (Long- mans 110s) This is the third volume of Professor Vaughan's quadrilogy of Burgundian history, which in scope and range of......