Spring books

14 april 2012 ❘ £3.50

Penelope Lively • A.N. Wilson • Peter Oborne • William Waldegrave Kate Saunders • Peter Blegvad • James Walton • Cressida Connolly www.spectator.co.uk ❘ est. 1828

Planet London Neil O’Brien on the great divide between the capital and the country

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