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Gold Mine

Richard Shone Rider Haggard: The Great Storyteller D. S. Higgins (Cassell pp. 266, £9.95) It often happens that a writer who is a popular best-seller is only interesting for......

Hollywood's Poetic Genius

Tom Sutcliffe About John Ford Lindsay Anderson (Plexus pp. 256, £12, £5.95) This is more than a biography. It is a gospel. About John Ford is a convincing, affecting and at......