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The Case Of The Navy Blue Raincoat

Michael Bywater THE YEAR OF THE TIGER by Jack Higgins Michael Joseph, £15.99, pp. 248 I was lent a house for a holiday. A villa in Portugal. Not a house. A villa. It was......

The Influential Touch Of A Vanished Hand

Nicholas Haslam NANCY LANCASTER: HER LIFE, HER WORLD, HER ART by Robert Becker Random House, £25, pp.426 O ne evening in the 1930s Nancy Lancaster dined with Lady Colefax. Among......

Books A Paris Review Interviewer Once Asked Philip...

Luis Borges the only other contemporary poet of note who is also a librarian, by the way? Are you aware of any others?' Larkin replied: `Who's Jorge Luis Borges?' James Woodall......