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Books

Adventures in the rough trade Alan Watkins Ruling Passions Tom Driberg (Jonathan Cape £5.95) 'Tom Driberg', Evelyn Waugh wrote in his Diary in 1942, 'has been elected......

Absolute Sadness

William Trevor The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev V. S. Pritchett (Ghetto and Windus £5.95) The reason why so many modern biographies are not worth reading may......