Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life
Cambridge University Press, $59.95 hb, 429 pp
Modest Everyman
by Morag Fraser •
Nugget Coombs never accepted a knighthood. The reason, he told his one-time English teacher, the essayist and academic Sir Walter Murdoch, was that it would be ‘out of character’ for him to do so.
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Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life
by Tim Rowse
Cambridge University Press, $59.95 hb, 429 pp
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