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Striking The Best Of Bargains

Francis King THE SUMMER OF A DORMOUSE by John Mortimer Viking, £16.99, pp. 213 I n this account of a year in his life, John Mortimer remarks that 'the real trouble with old age......

Someone Has Blundered

John Sweetman SNATCHING DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY: 20TH- CENTURY MILITARY BLUNDERS by David Wragg Sutton, £14.99, pp. 246 A fred, Lord Tennyson's poetic tribute to the......