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A Cow'rin' Tim'rous Beastie
Ian Ousby HISTORY IN OUR TIME by David Cannadine Yale University Press, £16.95, pp. 320 T his', David Cannadine announces at the beginning of a preface which reads more like a......
He Is No Scot Who Does Not Like This Book'
Jonathan Sumption SCOTICHRONICON by Walter Bower edited by D.E.R. Watt and others Aberdeen University Press, IX Volumes, £35 each W alter Bower is not, nowadays, a name to......
Dancing In The Dark
Michael Hulse PLEASURED by Philip Hensher Chatto & Windus, £14.99, pp. 373 P hilip Hensher's third novel begins with `the East German snow falling on the quiet East German......
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