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Sketch Books

Auberon Waugh Fabrications Michael Ayrton (Seeker and Warburg £2.25) Wild Thing Philip Norman (Heinemann £2.00) The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith Thomas Keneally (Angus and......

The Bbc's Founding Father

Christopher Sykes Only the Wind Will Listen: a biography of Lord Reith Andrew Boyle (Hutchinson £4.50) Was Reith a great man or not? He had the appearance or rather the......