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“... less biography than one might have expected. Nicholas Murray usefully fills a gap between Sybille Bedford’s thirty-year-old life of Aldous and the awaited definitive biography by David Bradshaw. With the passing of time, Murray can tell us things prohibited to his predecessor by discretion and the libel laws. At the same time, like Murray’s other ...”

“... there against Burke, he would repurpose a decade later to undermine Burke’s accuser, the Duke of Bedford. His versatility was always adventurous and unshameable.Gillray’s favourite face was unquestionably that of Charles Fox – always pictured as vaguely dissolute, with a five-day beard, as careless of his posture as of his associates. Gillray would throw ...”

“... children, were elaborate cakes and the latest iPhone.She was fond of a quote she’d found from William Golding. ‘I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,’ it said. ‘They are far superior and always have been.’ Most of the women thought this was a bit untrue, but Rania was very much herself. When her brother-in-law Tariq became ...”