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Spring Books

Suffering a sea- change.. . Geoffrey Wheatcroft EVELYN WAUGH: NO ABIDING CITY 1939-66 by Martin Stannard J.M. Dent, £25, pp. 523 I f the picture I have drawn seems sombre, it is......

The Man Who Got Away

P.D. James THE MAN WHO WASN'T MAIGRET by Patrick Marnham Bloomsbury, £17.99, pp. 346 A writer who achieves fame and notoriety which he comes to find intolera- ble can protect......

The Bonfire

More than the sum of its parts grass cuttings, other rubbish the bonfire keeps burning. All week we feed it, spring-cleaning flowerbeds and paths, and pruning the worst of the......