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  1. Napoleon's escort

    COCKBURN AND THE BRITISH NAVY IN TRANSITION. Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 1772-1853. By Roger Morriss. 338pp. University of Exeter Press. Pounds 35. - 0 85989 526 2. Sir George Cockburn is remembered...

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  2. Distiller at work

    THREADS OF TIME. A memoir. By Peter Brook. 241pp. Methuen. Pounds 17.99. - 0 413 69620 0. Not long after the formation of the International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris, Peter Brook took his...

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  3. Memories are remade of this

    REMIND ME WHO I AM, AGAIN. By Linda Grant. 301pp. Granta. Pounds 14.99. - 1 86207 171 3. Remind Me Who I Am, Again is about senile dementia, which seems to have replaced anorexia as the most written-...

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  4. Biography

    EDWARD HOPPER. An intimate biography. By Gail Levin. 695pp. Berkeley: University of California Press. Paperback, $19.95. - 0 520 21475 7. The word "intimate" has a slightly tawdry quality. In...

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  5. Cultural Studies

    A CENTURY OF ARTS AND LETTERS. John Updike, editor. 346pp. New York: Columbia University Press; distributed in the UK by Wiley. Pounds 32.50. - 0 231 10248 8. It is the centenary of the American...

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  6. Literature

    CONTEMPORARY JEWISH WRITING IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND. An anthology. Bryan Cheyette, editor. 336pp. Halban. Pounds 25 (paperback, Pounds 10.99). - 1 870015 68 1. Launching a series entitled Jewish...

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  7. Politics

    THE TRIAL OF DEMOCRACY. Black suffrage and northern Republicans, 1860-1910 411pp. By Xi Wang. Athens: University of Georgia Press; distributed in the UK by Eurospan. Pounds 51.95. - 0 8203 1837 X....

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  8. Social Studies

    WHERE THERE IS EVIL. By Sandra Brown. 312pp. Macmillan. Pounds 16.99. - 0 333 72185 3. In 1992, Sandra Brown found herself suddenly faced with the claim that her father was a child murderer. Brown...

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  9. Dick Bird

    NEVER THE SAME AGAIN. A history of the VSO. 206pp. Cambridge: Lutterworth. Pounds 25 (paperback, Pounds 15). - 0 7188 2975 1. I am sure young Americans would learn a good deal in this country...

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  10. Author, Author

    Readers are invited to identify the sources of the three quotations which follow, and to send us the answers so that they reach this office not later than July 17. A prize of Pounds 20 is offered for...

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  11. Listings

    ARCHITECTURE. Bradley, Simon, and Nikolaus Pevsner London: The city churches (The Buildings of London, vol 1) Penguin. 160pp, illus. Pounds 9.99 (paperback). 0 14 071100 7. 25/6/98 Schildt, Goran;...

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  12. "The Cocktail Party"

    (Photograph) - "The Cocktail Party", 1992, by Sandy Skoglund; from her book of photographs Reality Under Siege: A retrospective (119pp. Abrams. Pounds 25. - 0 8109 4185 6)

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  13. Deceiving into truth

    CHRISTIAN DISCOURSES. The crisis and a crisis in the life of an actress. by Soren Kierkegaard. 489pp. Pounds 39.50. - 0 691 01649 6. WITHOUT AUTHORITY. by Soren Kierkegaard. 317pp. Pounds 35. 0 691...

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  14. The meaning of 'genocide'

    Sir, - I am grateful to Roger W. Smith (Letters, June 12) for reminding me that one cannot argue with Humpty-Dumpty. Let him continue to maintain his - surely rather odd - distinction between total...

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  15. Love in a quarry

    BROTHER TO DRAGONS. By David Hartnett. 440pp. Cape. Paperback, Pounds 9.99. - 0 224 05015 X. David Hartnett's obvious delight in language (he is also the author of three collections of poetry) is the...

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