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Andrew O’Hagan: Mummy’s Favourite, 19 March 2026

Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York 
by Andrew Lownie.
Collins, 456 pp., £22, August 2025, 978 0 00 877545 2
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Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice 
by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
Doubleday, 367 pp., £25, October 2025, 978 1 5299 8524 5
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... Aramis 900, when the relationship between entitlement and sleaze could still seem novel, Prince Andrew came across like the more relatable sort of wanker, high on royal privilege but in touch with the inner life of the standard British male. ‘If he wasn’t a member of the royal family,’ the astrologer Russell Grant said, ‘his ideal role would be ...

The First Hundred Years

James Buchan, 24 August 1995

John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier 
by Andrew Lownie.
Constable, 365 pp., £20, July 1995, 0 09 472500 4
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... position or Mr Baldwin’s car or ‘success’ or any of the values that the people reviewing Mr Lownie’s book elsewhere hold dear, but the key to all of them: the power to make sense of the world not just by living in it but by transforming it into art (which, in this case, is literature). John Buchan belongs to that group of writers – T.E. Lawrence in ...

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