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As Kimber points out, however, Mansfield was a champion dissembler. And her life was the stuff of stories. Born into a prosperous New Zealand family, she was a self-styled bohemian who sought ...

A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham-Dixon ...

After reading Waste Wars, you will feel quite differently about throwing away a plastic bag or an old mobile phone, let alone an unwanted computer. Where do you think they end up? Alexander Clapp has ...

Degrees of Disgrace - The History and Pre-History of Hertford College, Oxford: Survival and Renewals by Christopher Tyerman ...

It didn’t take Thomas Hobbes to convince me that life could be nasty, brutish and short. That was done in November 1956 by the flickering black-and-white images on our family TV. Soviet tanks in ...

The Pen & the Spade - The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.) ...