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Flashman And Fisticuffs

James Teacher BLACK AJAX by George MacDonald Fraser HarperCollins, £16.99, pp. 248 M acDonald Fraser's meticulous editing of the Flashman papers (rediscov- ered in Ashby, Leics.......

The Road To Devaluation

Edmund Dell THE WILSON YEARS, 1964-69 by Alec Cairncross The Historians' Press, £30, pp. 380 S ir Alec Cairncross, who has written extensively on postwar economic history, has......

A Tease Of The First Order

Anita Brookner THE WEIGHT OF WATER by Anita Shreve Little, Brown, f15.99, pp. 246 D uring the night of 5 March 1873 two women, Norwegian immigrants, were murdered on the......