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Too Much And Too Soon

DONALD McLACHLAN Hostage in Peking Anthony Grey (Michael Joseph 50s) I wonder whose fault it is that this account of Anthony Grey's 806 days of solitary con- finement in Peking......

Sugar's Daddies

SHIVA NAIPAUL From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969 Eric Williams (Andre Deutsch 90s) Whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish......

First Of The Old Squares

CAROLA OMAN Letters from Liselotte, Elizabeth Char- lotte Princess Palatine and Duchess of Or- leans, 'Madame', 1652-1722, translated - and edited by Maria Kroll (Gollancz......