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Married To A Single Life

Frances Partridge THE BACHELOR DUKE: WILLIAM SPENCER CAVENDISH, 6TH DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE by James Lees-Milne John Murray, £19.95, pp. 234 here are certain historical periods so T......

Not A Very Proper Charlie

Brian Masters MY MANOR by Charlie Richardson Sidgwick &Jackson, £14.99, pp. 215 I t is rare for an author to reveal himself as guilelessly as this one. Charlie Richardson,......

A Floor In The Amber

Eric Christiansen PATTERNS OF THOUGHT: THE HIDDEN MEANING OF THE GREAT PAVEMENT IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by Richard Foster Cape, £15.99, pp.2I4 h e year 1268 was not a bad one for......