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Survival Of The Fittest

Kit McMahon THE BIG FOUR BRITISH BANKS by David Rogers Macmillan Business, £25, pp. 240 T his is a timely book. Of course, books of this kind are always recommended to the......

Monsters And

dragons P. J. Kavanagh BEOWULF translated by Seamus Heaney Faber, £14.99, pp. 106 There is an Irish flavour to Seamus Heaney's translation from the An g lo-Saxon which is......