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Angels Of Life And Death

Anita Brookner THEY CAME LIKE SWALLOWS by William Maxwell Hamill, £9.99, pp. 174 N othing becomes this novel so well as its title, which is taken from a poem by Yeats,......

Avoiding The Company Of Kings

Raymond Carr JOURNEY TO PORTUGAL by Jose Saramago Harvill, £20, pp. 452 F or Jose Saramago travelling is not a matter of moving from place to place but of 'being'. In 1979 he......