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The New And The Novel

Peter Ackroyd The Harmless Building Douglas Oliver (Grosseteste Review Books 0.00). To say that The Harmless Building is a 'new' novel is not to imply that it is either modern......

Those Happy Fields

Richard Shone British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century Luke Herrmann (Faber and Faber E15.00) The 'British school of landscape painting' is a national asset like......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend A happy new year to you, and an opportune moment to offer some well - meant resolutions. With so much being written about the book trade in every imaginable journalistic......