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Youth, I Do Adore Thee

Julie Burchill THE BoY by Germaine Greer Thames & Hudson, £29.95, pp. 256, ISBN 050023809X A t the risk of being vulgar, I can't help thinking that Dr Greer's ('At least she's......

From Crumpet To Muffin

Anne Chisholm THE CENTRE OF THE BED by Joan Bakewell Hodder & Stoughton, £20, pp. 321 ISBN 0340823100 I nthe early 1950s, when Joan Bakewell, just down from Cambridge, applied......

All's Well That Ends Well

Keith Baxter ALEC GUINNESS: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY by Piers Paul Read Simon & Schuster, £20, pp. 640, ISBN 0743207297 m any years ago in Belfast, when I was playing Prince......