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A Very Even Tenor
Kate Grimand HALFWAY TO HEAVEN: CONCLUDING MEMOIRS OF A LITERARY LIFE by Rupert Hart-Davis Sutton, .£18.99, pp. 163 D iaries should be prosaic; they ar e , all the better for......
Madly In Love With Words
Christopher Howse THE SURGEON OF CROWTHORNE by Simon Winchester Viking, £10, pp. 207 A dramatic scene in the film to be made from this book will have William Chester Minor, the......