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The Biter Only Half-bitten

James Michie HOME TRUTHS by David Lodge Seeker & Warburg, £6.99, pp. 115 me it is impossible to write a film play without first writing a story,' Graham Greene noted. David......

Browsing In Poisoned Pastures

Francis King ANGELICA'S GROTTO by Russell Hoban Bloomsbury, £10, pp. 271 L ike its author, the protagonist of this novel, Klein, is a small man of 72, born in America but long......