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Sacred Ground?

Leo Abse The Akenham Burial Place Ronald Fletcher (Wildwood House £3.95) The melancholic Schopenhauer has told us "we expiate our birth firstly by our life and secondly by our......

Fiction

Consumer durables Peter Ackroyd Thirty-Four East Alfred Coppel (Macmillan £2.75) The Radish Memoirs Terence de Vere White (Gollancz £2.25). Why is it always in the socialist......