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Modesty And Moderation Allow Spills But No Thrills

Patrick Skene Catling HERE LIES ERIC AMBLER by Eric Ambler Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £10.95 mysterious gas which may have caused all his car into a ditch beside the Lausanne-......

Delightful, But Depravity's Not There

Philip Glazebrook OXFORD BOOK OF AGES chosen by Anthony and Sally Sampson OUP, £8.95 L ike the album known to contain a photograph of yourself, the Oxford Book of Ages, with its......

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Learning to read you, twenty years ago, Over the pub lunch cheese-and-onion rolls; Learning you eat raw onions; learning your taste For obscurity, how you encode teachers and......