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All White

J. W. M. THOMPSON Gilbert White and his Selborne Anthony Rye (Kimber 70s) Attachment to places has always been a precious spring to fertilise literature, and the Rev Gilbert......

Flown Bird

DONALD McLACHLAN The Springing of George Blake Sean Bourke (Cassell 42s) Sean Bourke, a quixotic Irishman, planned single-handed the escape from Wormwood Scrubs of George Blake,......

Prophet And Loss

RONALD HINGLEY A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg (University of Chicago Press 86s) To the general reader the Russian author......