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The Spy Who Went Out To The Warm

Harriet Waugh THE RUSSIA HOUSE by John le Carre Hodder & Stoughton, £12.95, pp.344 adly, Smiley is absent from this tale of love and espionage across the East-West divide. The......

Ludwig Van's Fans

Noel Malcolm REMEMBERING BEETHOVEN: THE ORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY by Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries Deutsch, £11.95, pp.200 N o sooner had Beethoven died than the biographer and......

Here

Living here, I may nod at the seasons And leave the years uncounted. On summer Evenings, bats are pulled like threads down my Garden, squeaking their rubber soles, but signs Of......