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Books

Peninsular paradoxes Peter Kemp The Spanish Tragedy: The Chill War In P erspective Raymond Carr (Weidenfeld £10.00) Another book about the Spanish Civil War? But, the publishers......

Faint Thin Line Upon The Shore

Alethea Hayter George Meredith: His Life and Lost Love David Williams (Hamish Hamilton £7.95) When James Barrie came to London in the 1880s, his first pilgrimage to a literary......