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We Built On Absolute Trust

Peter Levi PEOPLE AND PLACES: COUNTRY HOUSE DONORS AND THE NATIONAL TRUST by James Lees-Milne John Murray, £19.99, pp. 230 T he National Trust is already old enough to have a......

The Curious Incident Of The Dog

Anita Brookner THE MIST IN THE MIRROR by Susan Hill Sinclair-Stevenson, £13.99, pp. 185 e t another Victorian pastiche, this time by Susan Hill in her Gothic or ghost story......

With Healing In Their Wings

Harriet Waugh ANGELS AND INSECTS by A.S. Byatt Chatto, f14.99, pp. 290 ensibly, A. S. Byatt has utilised the knowledge of Victorian mores and litera - ture which was necessary......