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A Short Tall Story

Nick Harman ZARAFA by Michael Allin Headline, £12.99, pp. 215 I f you think beauty is to do with due proportion, consider the giraffe and think again. The child was right to......

A Perfectionist In The Wilds Of Bohemia

David Hughes FRINK by Stephen Gardiner HarperCollins, £24.99, pp. 326 W hen in 1972 Elisabeth Frink suggest- ed 'doing my head', as she put it, I carried my bonce proudly around......