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Music

The King's Purse By DAVID CAIRNS It would be absurd to treat this incident as if it were typical of a Festival which, in the scope and coherence and bold imaginativeness of its......

Edinburgh Festival

Aspects of the Novelist By SIMON RAVEN HE International Writers' Conference in Edinburgh was billed to undertake five ses- sions of public discussion in a vast mausoleum called......