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Rose Glut

Eric Christiansen The Wars of the Roses Anthony Goodman (Routledge pp. 294, 12.95) The Wars of the Roses John Gillingham (Weidenfeld pp. 274, £12.50) Nowadays history books tend......

Making Lists

Hugh LawsonTancred Ordering the World: A History of Classifying Man David Knight (Burnett Books pp. 215, £7.95) To what extent do the phenomena of the extended world in which we......

Moving On

James Hughes-Onslow Mucking Around: Five Continents over Fifty Years Naomi Mitchison (Gollancz pp.147, £7.50) Here is a travel book that breaks all the rules. Well, the rule......