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Desert Songs

Quentin Bell The Purple Heart Throbs, the Sub-Literature of Love Rachel Anderson (Hodder and Stoughton £2.95) One falls upon this book with horrid delight, a relish which is......

Distrait Sheppard

Edward Norman Built as a City: God and the Urban Worid ' Today David Sheppard (Hodder and Stoug h ' ton £3.25) The publishers of the Bishop of Woolwich n5 b . ook describe it as......