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Books

S ensational, frank, affectionate and hugely entertaining!' shrieks the dust cov- er, in black, white and red, the colours which old Fleet Street shared with Hohen- zollern......

From The Queer Twenties To The Gay Eighties

Philip Glazebrook THE TEMPLE by Stephen Spender Faber, £10.95 THE BEAUTIFUL ROOM IS EMPTY by Edmund White Picador, f9.95 THE SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY by Alan Hollinghurst Chatto,......