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Balance And Counterbalance

Ben Wilson THREE VICTORIES AND A DEFEAT: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE 1714-1783 by Brendan Simms Allen Lane, £30, pp. 800, ISBN 9780713994261 © £24 (plus £2.45......

A Choice Of Quirky Books

Bevis Hillier The humorist Paul Jennings wrote for Punch when it was still funny — that is, up to and including the editorship of the late Alan Coren. Jennings also wrote such......