Volume LIII Number 10
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Books
The Extraordinary Robert Conquest
Penultimata, by Robert Conquest; The Waywiser Press, 2009, £8.99.
In the late 1970s, during the rule of the last Labour government and the resulting last financial crisis, I was working in Bayswater close to the Parks, and after work I used sometimes to nip down to the Public Library at Royal Oak, a fine Victorian building full of fine Victorian books like the complete works of Dickens and Capital by Karl Marx in an early translation. Of course cuts meant that the library closed and I bought for a couple of shillings a book called The Abomination of Moab by Robert Conquest.
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