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By Strangers Honoured

Penelope Lively EGYPT: A TRAVELLER'S ANTHOLOGY by Christopher Pick John Murray, £16.95, pp. 265 T he effect of Egyptian travel seems always to have been devastating. No self-......

Don't Judge A Book By Its Genre

Timothy Mo THE NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION by Patrick O'Brian Collins, f13.99, pp. 320 P atrick O'Brian is a first-class writer who can be mistaken at first glance for a third- rate......

After The X-ray

If he had stayed in the four white walls or alone in his patch, the untidy hedge strewing its roses through empty hours he would never have met the dark mare whose neck he......