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Caroline Moore THE RAGGED LION by Allan Massie Hutchinson, f15.99, pp. 240 I shall be reading the other reviews of The Ragged Lion with even more than usual curiosity, for I...

Anita Brookner MOTHERS' BOYS by Margaret Forster Chatto, £14.99, pp. 313 I n the annals of contemporary fiction Margaret Forster scores a comfortable beta plus. She deals...

Tony Gould A FISH IN THE WATER by Mario Vargas Llosa Faber, £17.50, pp. 532 I n the Daily Telegraph on 2 January 1989 the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa stated baldly...

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Children's corner Jaspistos IN COMPETITION NO. 1835 you were invited to write a poem for children begin- ning 'I wish I were a(n) . . Chesterton's triolet went: I wish I were...

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Index for January-June 1994 Subjects and Titles A Abbe de Choisy, The, The Transvestite Memoirs (Trans R.H.F. Scott), 18 Jun 36(R) Abse, Leo, Wotan, My Enemy, 21 May 33(R)...