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Going For Gold

Sebastian Smee THE COLOUR by Rose Tremain Chatto, £16.99, pp. 368 ISBN 0701172967 T he most obvious reason historical fiction is often seen as a less than serious option, best......

Little Boy Lost

Patrick Skene Catling No TELLING by Adam Thorpe Cape, £16.99, pp. 360, ISBN 0224062344 T he early diaries of Adrian Mole were a witty caricature of pubescence, but pimples and......

Birds Of A Feather

Peregrine Worsthorne THE QUEEN AND US by Nigel Nicolson Weidenfeld, £14.99, pp. 149, ISBN 0297829408 D o we really need yet another book commemorating — rather belatedly, in......