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A Grand Overview

Anita Brookner P AINTINGS IN P ROUST by Eric Karpeles Thames & Hudson, £25, pp. 352, ISBN 9780500238547 ✆ £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 T his unassuming book is in fact a......

The Secrets Of Room 40

Alan Judd ‘B LINKER ’ H ALL , S PYMASTER by David Ramsay Spellmount, £25, pp. 320, ISBN 9781862274655 T he first world war admiral, ‘Blinker’ Hall — so-called for the obvious......