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Aiming High, Scoring Low

Nicholas Fearn THE BOOK OF KINGS by James Thackara Duckworth, £19.99, pp. 773 T he Book of Kings is written as a great novel in the old-fashioned way. It belongs to the period......

History Is Not Bunk

John Jolliffe OLD NEW WORLD: THE OLD-FASHIONEDNESS OF AMERICA by Lucinda Lambton HatperCollins, £19.99, pp. 174 L cinda Lambton's highly personal vision of America, lovingly set......