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He Knows A Thing Or Two

Julian Mitchell WHICH LIE DID I TELL? by William Goldman Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 490 I read this book in a heat-wave far up Hardangerfjord in Norway, where ten professionals,......

The Thinking Man's President

Raymond Asquith FIRST PERSON by Vladimir Patin Hutchinson, £9.99, pp. 219 T his is a well crafted book, calculated at perfect pitch to appeal to several Russian and ex-Soviet......

Getting Back Into Touch

P. J. Kavanagh THE SONG OF THE EARTH by Jonathan Bate Picador, £18, pp. 322 T his book is an analysis of the progress of our disconnection from `nature', though there is no......