13 MAY 1989, page 50

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WHEN Bruce Oldfield was on the Whit- bread Prize committee the year before last, he warmly commended Kazuo Ishiguro's Artist of the Floating World. It was an odd sort of......

Home Life

Dog's dinner Alice Thomas Ellis I never used to have very strong views about dogs in the dining-room. I know cats who sleep on the dining-table. You sweep them off before meals......