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Game For A Fight In The Country

Michael Wharton THE LONG AFFRAY: THE POACHING WARS IN BRITAIN by Harry Hopkins Seeker & Warburg, £12.95 T here is no doubt which side the author is on in this fascinating,......

Restoration But Little Comedy

Francis King STONE VIRGIN by Barry Unsworth Hamish Hamilton, £8.95 T hough tempting, it would a critical cliché, and also not wholly accurate, to say that this remarkable novel......