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Playing Safe

Artemis Cooper West of Sunset Dirk Bogarde (Allen Lane £8.95) I n one of his volumes of autobiography, Dirk Bogarde quotes Noel Coward's ex- cellent piece of advice to the......

Tvenin' All'

P.J. Kavanagh Inside the British Police Simon Holdaway (Blackwell £14.95) 'Simon Holdaway left school and joined the police force. He served for eleven Years and was then......

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