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An Older Aldous

Francis King .1dous Huxley Volume Two Sybille Bedford (Chatto/Collins £4.50) There is a great deal of sadness in this second volume of Sybille Bedford's beautifully composed......

Cacophony

Peter Ackroyd Napoleon Symphony Anthony Burgess (Jonathan Cape £3.25) Yes; Mr Burgess is fluent and fanciful and inventive; he is even occasionally fertile. He tells us so......

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ANY BOOKS by Kevin Fitzgerald. Box 495, or telephone Patrick Cosgrave, tel. 01-353 4242 ext. 701. FREDERICK THE GREAT by F. J. P. Veak. Antony Fiew, 26 Alexandra Road, Reading,......