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Scotching Some Of The Myths

Allan Massie THE HUNT FOR ROB ROY by David Stevenson John DonaldIBerlinn, West Newington House, 10 Newington Road, Edinburgh EH 9 I QS, £16.99, pp. 339, ISBN 0859765903 ob Roy......

The Shattering Of Decorum

Sebastian Smee THE FIT by Philip Hensber Fourth Estate, £15.99, pp. 326, ISBN 0007174810 T he first half of Philip Hensher's new novel does a lot of chugging and clunking into......