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Scarcely A Matter Of Honour

Jane Ridley DUEL by James Landale Canongate, £14.99, pp. 304 ISBN 1841956473 ✆ £11.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 E arly one morning in August 1826 two men stood facing each......

All Passion Still Not Spent

Francis King W HEN I G ROW U P by Bernice Rubens Little, Brown, £17.99, pp. 256, ISBN 0316731277 ✆ £14.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 F rom her earliest years, one attribute......

A Dose Of The Verbals

Dot Wordsworth A light moment in the preliminary stages of learning Turkish is to discover that the word in that tongue for ‘talking nonsense’ is fart . Later on one finds that......