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What Price The Dome?

Jane Ridley THE WORLD FOR A SHILLING by Michael Leapman Headline, £14.99, pp. 227, ISBN 0747270120 T he success story of the Great Exhibition of 1851 should make the government......

Swings And Roundabouts

Allan Massie BIRTHDAY by Alan Sillitoe Flamingo, 116.99, pp. 249, ISBN 0007107811 T here was a time when the English provincial novel was fashionable — from, say, the early......