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From Yuppie To Polonius

Alastair Forbes SUNDRY TIMES by Frank Giles John Murray, f13.95 A fter 40 years of journalism, begun, so he engagingly admits, as a hopelessly incompetent probationary......

The Wit Of Ferney

Laurence Lerner VOLTAIRE by A. J. Ayer Weidenfeld & Nicolson, f14.95 V oltaire occupies a similar position in French literature to Dr Johnson in English. Everyone has heard of......