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Wise-cracks

Francis King Madder Music Peter de Vries (Gollancz £3.95) The Throwback Tom Sharpe (Secker and Warburg £4.50) Freud, as Peter de Vries reminds the reader in Madder Music, stated......

Religious Books

Triumphs Auberon Waugh More Roman than Rome Derek Holmes (Burns & Oates £8.50) One of the effects of the French Revolution was to bring about a revival of the Catholic religion.......