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Denis Hills At Eighty

Rowland Ryder D enis Hills' deeds and misdeeds at King Edward's Birmingham have become part of the school folklore: flicking off the hats of railway porters; retrieving tennis......

Heavy Reign In Spain

Simon Courtauld FRANCO by Paul Preston HatperCollins, £25, pp. 1002 T he story goes — though not told in this book — that during Franco's last illness in 1975 he was talking to......