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Keeping Secrets, Friends And Illusions

Stephen Pickles JUST WILLIAMS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Kenneth Williams Dent, f8.95 I n 1961 Kenneth Williams was Roy Plomley's guest on Desert Island Discs. Despite feeling......

Cloaks, Daggers And Novelists

T.E.B. Howarth SECRET SERVICE: THE MAKING OF THE BRITISH INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY by Christopher Andrew Heinemann, £12.95 T here are great advantages in having the adventures and......