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Proving The Jeremiahs Wrong

Hugh Massingberd BURKE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE edited by Charles Mosley Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, £295, pp. 3,347 (2 vols) H ow fatally easy it is to succumb to......

Human Flotsam And Jetsam

Francis King OCEAN SEA by Alessandro Baricco Penguin, 110.99, pp. 241 T he difficulty of describing a novel as idiosyncratic as this is illustrated by the fatuous quotation on......