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Adding To The Gaiety Of Nations

Frederic Raphael EDGE OF MIDNIGHT THE LIFE OF JOHN SCHLESINGER by William J. Mann Hutchinson, £25, pp. 628, ISBN 0091794897 D irecting movies is more like a sport than an art:......

The Ghost Of Twelfth Night Past

D. J. Taylor ALCHEMY by Maureen Duffy Fourth Estate, £15.99, pp. 380, ISBN 0007149654 T here never were any flies on Maureen Duffy. Like her nearcontemporary Francis King, whose......