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A Prickly Character

Kate Chisholm HESTER by Ian McIntyre Constable, £25, pp. 450, ISBN 9781845294496 I must eat up my own heart & be quiet,’ confided Hester Thrale in her private notebook in the......

The Great Duke And Others

James Delingpole WELLINGTON by Jane Wellesley Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 369, ISBN 9780297852315 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 T here can never be too many biographies of the......