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Adventures Of A Disenchanted Traveller

Simon Blow TO NOTO, OR LONDON TO SICILY IN A FORD by Duncan Fallowell Dent, £13.95, pp.291 S ince Bruce Chatwin published In Pata- gonia to such acclaim 12 years ago, travel......

Laughing At Terror From A Safe Distance

Patrick Skene Catling N ot since Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark has a cuckold been so grievously tormented as the protagonist of Patrick McGrath's diabolically clever first......