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The Importance Of Being Alone

Anita Brookner THE SCHOOL OF GENIUS by Anthony Storr Deutsch, £12.95, pp.216 T his book brings excellent news for those who, whatever their reasons for so doing, live alone, and......

All In One Bottom

Edna Healey THE SIXTH GREAT POWER: BARINGS 1762-1929 by Philip Ziegler Collins, .f17.50, pp. 430 I n the second week of October 1890, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount......