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The Best Of Everything

Christopher Hill General Monck Maurice Ashley (Jonathan Cape £6.95) Dr Ashley is a skilled and experienced biographer, nearly all of whose two dozen books deal with......

Possessed

Nick Totton Ordinary People Judith Guest (Collins £3.50) The Cold Room Jeffrey Caine (W. H. Allen £3.50) Introduction 6: Stories by New Writers (Faber £3.95) Ordinary People is......