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No Obvious Talent

Robert Blake THE FOUNDER: CECIL RHODES AND THE PURSUIT OF POWER by Robert I. Rotberg with Miles F. Shore OUP, £25, pp. 800 yen today, nearly 90 years after his death, Cecil......

French Moving Picture

Emily Read THE GIRL AT THE LION D'OR by Sebastian Faulks Hutchinson, £11.95, pp.254 A young girl arrives one wet evening, carrying all her belongings in two suitcases, at the......