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Loneliness Of The Long-distance Bicyclist

Anthony Daniels THE UKIMWI ROAD by Dervla Murphy John Murray, £16.99, pp. 278 D ervla Murphy presents herself as a bluff, straight-talking, average and normal person who just......

Devious, But Nice

Ian Aitken WILSON: THE AUTHORISED LIFE by Philip Ziegler Weidenfeld, L19.95, pp. 518 B y no means the least complimentary thing one can say of Philip Ziegler's biogra- phy of......