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Blind Passion

Virginia Llewellyn Smith The Children Henri Troyat, trans. Anthea Bell (Alden Ellis £7.95) H enri Troyat, biographer of Tolstoy land other Russian writers, is little known as a......

Chimes At Midnight

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Mistress of Charlecote Edited by Alice Fairfax-Lucy (Gollancz £9,95) T o the romantically minded National Trust visitor Charlecote Park in War-......