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Death And Corruption In Bath

Anita Brookner THE SUMMER OF THE ROYAL VISIT by Isabel Colegate !famish Hamilton, f14. 99, pp. 219 T he jacket illustration of Isabel Cole- gate's distinctive new novel shows an......

Trouble With The Rates

John Grigg ODYSSEY OF AN EDWARDIAN LIBERAL: THE POLITICAL DIARY OF RICHARD DURNING HOLT edited by J. Dutton Rocord Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, £24.00, pp. 136 L loyd......

This Bodice Is Not For Ripping

Anne Chisholm WALLIS: THE NOVEL by Anne Edwards Macmillan, £14.99, pp. 480 I t must have seemed such a foolproof idea; to rewrite the love story of the century, the tale of how......