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The Sins Of The Father

Anita Brookner A PERFECT SPY by John Le Carre Hodder & Stoughton, f9.95 A perfect spy is a spy without a cause, someone drawn to the trade by helpful advisers and a guiltily......

Mum's Still The Word

Nicholas Coleridge QUEEN ELIZABETH: A LIFE OF THE QUEEN MOTHER by Penelope Mortimer Viking, £12.95 I n the course of researching an article about the Queen Mother's circle for......