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Gadfly Of The Establishment

Jane Ridley WILFRED BLUNT'S EGYPTIAN GARDEN/ FOX-HUNTING IN CAIRO The Stationery Office, £6.99, pp. 114 T he Stationery Office, now privatised and shorn of its dear old H M, has......

A Hero Suffering Without An Audience

Benjamin Yarde-Buller THE RETURN AND OTHER STORIES by Andrey Platonov Harvill, £9.99, pp. 215 F or a number of reasons, none of them relating to the quality of his writing,......