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Complex Sometimes, Elusive Never

A t the very beginning of his book Roy Jenkins estimates the number of those who have written on and around Churchill as 'somewhere between 50 and 100'. A research librarian......

Happy Knack, Less Happy Disposition

Brian Masters HOLY DREAD: DIARIES, 1982-1984 by James Lees-Milne, edited by Michael Bloch John Murray, £22.50, pp. 251, ISBN 0719562058 h e very first entry in this new......

Tending The Sacred Flame

Rupert Christiansen AND THAT'S NOT ALL: THE MEMOIRS OF JOAN PLO WRIGHT by Joan Plowright Weidenfeid, £20, pp. 35Z ISBN 0297645943 R emember the radiance of her Beatie Bryant in......