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Books

Coming to, smelling of roses David Gilmour THE END OF THE LINE by Richard Cobb John Murray, £20, pp. 229 M y subject is chaotic,' wrote Richard Cobb in the introduction to one......

All Things To All Men

John Michell KING ARTHUR IN LEGEND AND HISTORY by Richard White Dent, £25, pp. 512 I n response to my complaint that children nowadays are brought up in an atmosphere of......

Rough Winds Do Shake

Max Egremont VISITORS by Anita Brookner Cape, £15.99, pp. 236 M rs Dorothea May is a widow of 70 who lives in a ground-floor flat in a smart district of London. She has the use......