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Books

The tale of a sofa Auberon Waugh Brief Lives Alan Watkins (Hamish Hamilton £8.95) W e all knew that Peregrine Worsthorne had been seduced, while at Stowe, by George Melly, at......

Whole Hoggers

Alastair Best Black Sheep Christopher Simon Sykes (Chatto & Windus £9.95) In his earlier and wholly delightful volume, The Visitors Book, Christopher Simon Sykes introduced us......

Stylishness

Francis King Constance Laurence Durrell (Faber & Faber £7.95) L aurence Durrell has used the l e 'quincunx' to describe his plan ?„ I. novels, of which this is the third. v - b......