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Dung In A Silk Stocking

Piers Paul Read THE LIVES OF ELSA TRIOLET by Lachlan Mackinnon Chatto & Windus, £18, pp.216 E lsa Triolet was the first woman to be awarded the Prix Goncourt. Her novels are now......

Pseudo-history Under A Pseudonym

Patrick Skene Catling CHIEF OF STAFF by William Coyle Chatio, £14.99, pp. 426 NOW AND IN TIME TO BE: IRELAND AND THE IRISH by Thomas Keneally, with photographs by Patrick......