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Books

The bad and the brilliant William Trevor Somerset Maugham and his World Frederic Raphael (Thames and Hudson £3.95) I graduated from detective stories and thrillers to the novels......

An Age Of Vulgarity

Robert Skidelsky The Age of Uncertainty J. K. Galbraith ( BBC/Andre Deutsch £7.25) One day in 1973, Galbraith was rung up in America by someone from the BBC in L ondon. Would he......