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One Good Man And True

Alberto Manguel THE BENEFITS OF DOUBT: ESSAYS by Frederic Raphael Carcanet, £14.95, pp. 220, ISBN 1857546350 W e forget sometimes what a pleasure it is to read a reviewer who is......

Reluctant Critic

Fiona Maddocks BRITTEN ON MUSIC edited by Paul Kildea OUP, £30, pp. 456, ISBN 0198167148 W ere this book a piece of music, it would have one of those mysterious non-specific......