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Scent And Spume

Peter Quennell Pierre Loti: Portrait of an Escapist Lesley Blanch (Collins £12.50) rlarrying home two massive volumes of the Oeuvres Completes de Pierre Loti, I met on the bus a......

Elder Brothers

Mark Amory Married to a Single Life: An Autobiography, 1901-38 Wilfrid Blunt (Michael Russell £9.95) Brothers and Friends: An Intimate Portrait of C.S. Lewis The Diaries of......

Hell In Hell

Patrick Skene Catling London Tales edited by Julian Evans (Hamish Hamilton £8.95) F or people who have never been in London (there must be such people) this vividly picturesque......