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A Greed For Particulars

Caroline Moore SEEK MY FACE by John Updike Hamish Hamilton, £16.99, pp. 276, ISBN 0241141982 F rancis Spufford, in his engaging account of childhood reading, The Child That......

Afar Cry From Plato's Republic

David Caute WAITING FOR THE WILD BEASTS TO VOTE by Ahnriadou Kourouma, translated from the French by Frank Wynne Heinemann, £12.99, pp. 445, ISBN 0434008141 T his witty and......