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A Sailor With Strange Credentials

Jeremy Swift RACUNDRA'S THIRD CRUISE by Arthur Ransome, edited by Brian Hammett Femhurst Books, £14.95, pp. 128, ISBN 1808660891 A rthur Ransome remains an enigma. The facts of......

The Ruthless Grip Of Language

Philip Hensher M ichael Frayn has been awarded this year's Heywood Hill Prize, and nobody is going to argue with that. The prize is not for an individual work, but in......