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Private Lives

Robert Blake Disraeli's Reminiscences ed. Helen and Marvin Swartz (Hamish Hamilton £5.95) Advice to a Grand-Daughter, Letters of Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse ed.......

Saucy

Pat Rogers Jonathan Swift: Major Prophet A. L. Rowse (Thames and Hudson £5.95) In his time Dr Rowse has thought up some startling ways of gaining literary notice. And when you......

Fiction

Modern times Peter Ackroyd The History Man Malcolm Bradbury (Secker and Warburg £3.50) High-Rise J. G. Ballard (Jonathan Cape £2.95) Enter the giant race before the Flood, the......