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Noreen

In any group there are the beautiful and the plain, the strong & weak, smart as a trinket & dumb as a clam. Agreed. But there's little agreement who they are or correlation with......

This Knowing

naive eye Victoria Rothschild DOCK LEAVES by Hugo Williams Faber, f6.99, pp. 67 T he 'dock leaves' of the title of Hugo Williams' latest volume come in his poem 'Joy', where he......

So, Back To The Shop

John Bowen THE GLASS NIGHT by John de Falbe Cuckoo Press, £7.99, pp. 274 I n April 1719 Robinson Crusoe, a first novel by Daniel Defoe, was published and, we're told, the novel......