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Books

Ivy and friends Christopher Hawtree Secrets of a Woman's Heart Hilary Spurling (Hodder and Stoughton £14.95) `Tt is a pity that speech cannot be _Lprinted.' Such a remark, made......

Shepherds Into Gods

Peter Ackroyd The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds Edited and introduced by Phyllis Grosskurth (Hutchinson £14.95) thought that, if I lived to do nothing else, I should write......