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Through The Keyhole

Norman Stone An Ambassador's Memoirs. Maurice Paleologue, translated by F. A. Holt, introduced by Professor L. B. Schairo (Hutchinson E12.00). Maurice Paleologue was ambassador......

Crime Compendium

I had to endure two rebukes arising from my last column, The first was for dealing with Northcote Parkinson's naval adventure Devil to Pay in a crime compendium; the second for......

Words Getting In The Way

David Harsent Dannie Abse Fun/and and other poems (Hutchinson E1.75; paperback, 75p) Anthony Thwaite: Inscriptions (OUP £1.30) It's difficult, most of the time, to decide......