16 NOVEMBER 1996, page 50
More Than Just William
Kate Grimond MARTHA'S ARK by Charlotte Moore Arrow, £5.99, pp. 359 T here is an Aga here — let that be said. It is old and gives off fumes and the cats sit near it and the......
Forgotten Changer Of History
John Grigg A THIRST FOR GLORY: THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL SIR SIDNEY SMITH by Tom Pocock Aurum, £19.95, pp. 261 W hen Napoleon, exiled on St Helena, said of a British officer who had......
Obscure Object Of Desire
Max Egremont THE KISS by Hugo Vickers Hamish Hamilton, £15, p. 233 hen he was a schoolboy at Eton in the late 1960s, Hugo Vickers met Joan and Christian Kappey, two spinster......
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