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Unnerved By Ancestral Voices

Tony Gould TRIALS OF THE MONKEY: AN ACCIDENTAL MEMOIR by Matthew Chapman Duckworth, £14.99, pp. 337 T his hugely entertaining book is some- thing of a curiosity. It sets out to......

The Final Showdown

Michael Wharton THE MANDALA OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE MISSING YEARS edited by Jamyang Norbu John Murray, £16.99, pp. 279 A s the fate of present-day Tibet, help- less in the......

Taffy And The Hun

Byron Rogers OUR FIRST LEADER by Jan Morris Gomer, £5.95, pp. 136 I suppose it had to happen. With the first National Assembly shakily in place in Cardiff, a new form of fantasy......