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Blue Blood

Alastair Forbes Marie Bonaparte: A Life Celia Bertin (Quartet £14.95) Unburdening himself, a dozen or so Li years ago, to the editor of Punch, the chap he had picked as good......

Chumps

Patrick Marnham People Edited by Susan Hill (Chatto & Windus £8.95) S ome years ago a book was published ...lulled Places. Edited by Ronald Blythe and containing descriptions of......

Ambivalent

Francis King Londoners Maureeen Duffy (Methuen £7.95) Maureeen Duffy (Methuen £7.95) rr he name of the central character and narrator of this novel is Al. Al for Alfred, for......