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The Vanity Of The Old Persuader

Hilary Rubinstein VICTOR GOLLANCZ by Ruth Dudley Edwards Gollancz, £20.00 T his meticulously researched biogra- phy is of formidable length — almost 800 pages if you include the......

Back To Their Kangaroots

Jan Morris THE FATAL SHORE by Robert Hughes Collins Harvill, f15.00 R are though they are (still only 15 million of them), and from a habitat mercifully remote, in the world of......