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The Bottom Line

Francis King THE MAKIOKA SISTERS by Junichiro Tanizaki Everyman's Library, £10.99, pp. 498 O f all novels that I have ever read, Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters provides my......

Arts

Conservation Taxed out of existence I t is nearly 20 years since the Destruction of the Country House exhibition at the V & A, and yet the sorry tale continues. Michael Sayer,......