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People Of The Footnotes

Byron Rogers THE CELEBRATED CAPTAIN BARCLAY by Peter Radford Headline, £15.99, pp. 342, ISBN 0747272220 BASTARD PRINCE by Beverley Murphy Sutton, £20, pp. 282, ISBN 0750926848......

The Horror That Was Humbert

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The Bad Luck Of The Irish

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