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Feeling Out Of Sight

Cressida Connolly LET ME COUNT THE WAYS by Deborah Bosley Century, £9.99, pp. 122 I f bookshops and libraries arranged their novels in alphabetical order according to subject......

Toujours La Politesse

Nigel Nicolson MY NAME ESCAPES ME: THE DIARY OF A RETIRING ACTOR by Alec Guinness Hamish Hamilton, £16, pp. 214 A lec Guinness tells us that he has kept a sort of diary for over......

Her Talent Was For Love

Elizabeth Lowry EMILY TENNYSON: THE POET'S WIFE by Ann Thwaite Faber, £25, pp. 716 A fter a week spent at Farringford on the Isle of Wight in June 1859, which had given him an......