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Delivering a talk on IB and Riga on 6 June 2011, in Riga
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Maurice Bowra’s famous ribald satires on his contemporaries, published in 2005, are nearly sold out ...
NEW BATS IN OLD BELFRIES
Maurice
Bowra
Edited
by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes
With an Introduction by Julian
Mitchell
I shall not need chastity in heaven,
For I shall be with Oliver Thynne,
And alternando we shall go
In and out and out and in.
‘brilliant and bawdy ... an extraordinary production’
A. L. Rowse
‘unsurpassable in the vigour, candour and fantasy with which it describes sexual activity’
Noel Annan
Stocked at Blackwell’s in Oxford, at Heywood Hill and John Sandoe in London
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