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Lessons For An Idiot People

John Buxton The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Cultural Achievement A. L. Rowse (Macmillan £3.95) More than twenty years after he began his history of the Elizabethan Age, Dr......

Bookend

Bookbuyer Hard on the heels of a public complaint by the mother of the Kray twins, Weidenfeld and Nicolson have postponed the publication of John Pearson's book about them, The......