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Love From Snoop Or Poj

Alan Strachan THE LETTERS OF NOEL COWARD edited by Barry Day Bloomsbury, £25, pp. 800, ISBN 9780713685787 £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Noel Coward owned always that luck......

The Conquering Hero As Show-off

Frederic Raphael THE ROMAN TRIUMPH by Mary Beard Belknap Harvard, £14.40, pp. 448, ISBN 9780674026131 £15.95 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 How should ancient Roman history be......