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Art At The Barricades

Timothy Bainbridge The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851) Timothy Clark (Thames and Hudson £4.50) This book is a justification of a certain kind of......

Bill Platypus's

Paperbacks There has recently been a revival of rural memories in paper. back form. Now Coronet have issued a trilogy from Fred Arch. er, The Secrets of Bredon Hill (35p), Under......

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Bookend This autumn's publishing programmes, looking for all the world like last spring's publishing programmes (which in several cases they are) make better reading than many......