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Home Town Blues

Francis King RING ROAD by Ian Sansom Fourth Estate, £12.99, pp. 388, ISBN 0007156537 A preliminary riffle through this novel is not all that encouraging. Three pages of spoof......

At Sea With Oneself

Sandra Howard THE VOYAGE HOME by Jane Rogers Little, Brown, £16.99, pp. 370, ISBN 0316726710 T he Voyage Home is the third book I've read about Africa recently. Like the others......