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Celebrating The Extraordinary In The Ordinary

William Scammell COLLECTED POEMS by Les Murray Carcanet, £18.95, pp. 331 THE PAPERBARK TREE: SELECTED PROSE by Les Murray Carcanet, £18.95, pp. 392 L es Murray looks like the......

How The Line Held

J. Enoch Powell THE BEN LINE, 1825-1982: AN ANECDOTAL HISTORY by Michael Strachan Michael Russell, £17.95, pp. 248 M ichael Strachan, the brother officer who coached me to drive......