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Seeing Dad Right

Cressida Connolly FATHER! FATHER! BURNING BRIGHT by Alan Bennett Profile, £3.99, pp. 94 THE CLOSER WE ARE TO DYING by Joe Fiorito Bloomsbury, £15.99, pp.321 B oth of these......

The Case For The Defence

Rupert Christiansen VAUGHAN WILLIAMS by Simon Hoffer Weidenfeld, £12.99, pp. 152 C A passable imitation of a composer' is how my A-level music master, a bright- eyed......