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Troubadour Of The Golden Age

Grey Gowrie DOWN THE HIGHWAY: THE LIFE OF BOB DYLAN by Howard Sounes Doubleday, £17.99, pp. 527, ISBN 0385601255 F ive years ago, Bob Dylan was a contender for the Nobel Prize......

A King In Fits And Starts

Raymond Carr PHILIP V OF SPAIN by Henry Kamen Yale, £25, pp. 283, ISBN 0300087187 K ings and queens, in those European states where they survive as heads of state, are now......