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Meat To Piranhas

Patrick Skene Catling BURY MY HEART AT W. H. SMITH'S: A WRITING LIFE by Brian Aldiss Hodder, £13.95 pp. 221 T he jacket blurb of Last Orders (Cape, 1977), one of Brian Aldiss's......

Completely Dead To Decency

Raymond Carr JUAN GOYTISOLO: THE CASE FOR CHAOS by Abigail Lee Six Yale University Press, £20, pp. 192 JUAN THE LANDLESS by Juan Goytisolo Serpent's Tail, £8.99, pp. 288 uan......