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Books

Victorians in armour Harold Acton The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman Mark Girouard (Yale University Press pp.312, £12.50) At a first glance I imagined......

Story Telling

Francis King Life Stories A. L. Barker (Hogarth pp. 319, £6.95) Like V. S. Pritchett — with whose work, quirky and poetic, hers has much in common — A. L. Barker is a good......

Doomed King

Christopher Hibbert King Charles I Pauline Gregg (Dent pp. 496, £12.50) 'Upon my word!' the Prince Regent once exclaimed after scrutinising one of Van Dyck's pictures of his......