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A Sadder And A Wiser Man

Jonathan Cecil ENTER A FOX by Simon Gray Faber, £9.99, pp. 121 A s well as being one of our most celebrated dramatists, Simon Gray is a unique diarist and ferocious chronicler......

Seeing The Humoresque Side Of Things

Norman Lebrecht ON MUSIC: COLLECTED ESSAYS by Alfred Brendel Robson, £16.95, pp. 418 O ne Belgravia night, going in to dinner, I caught a frosty look in Alfred Brendel's eye.......