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Meat And Drink For The Imagination

Judith Flanders THE CHILD THAT BOOKS BUILT by Francis Spofford Faber; f12.99, pp. 212, ISBN 0571191320 I sat on the second stair in our house in a Montreal suburb. The dog......

Quirky, Quicksilver Mind

John Biffen HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW by John Nott Politico's, £20, pp. 350, ISBN 1842750305 A neurin Bevan dismissed political biography: 'I like my fiction straight.' He would......