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The Path From Rome

Piers Paul Read THE GATEKEEPER by Terry Eagleton Allen Lane/ Penguin, £9.99, pp. 177, ISBN 0713995904 T his brief memoir by Terry Eagleton, with its black binding, red......

A Cock-eyed Optimist

Sheridan Morley SOMEWHERE FOR ME: A BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD RODGERS by Meryle Secrest Bloomsbury, £25, pp. 457, ISBN 0747552169 M eryle Secrest, born in Bath but long resident in......