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A Voice Crying In The Wilderness

Tobias Jones QUARANTINE by Jim Crace Viking, £16.99, pp. 243 I t's hard to imagine who will dislike Jim Crace's startling, beguiling novel more: atheists who resent his thick......

Who First Put The Swans On The Lake?

Giannandrea Poesio THE LIFE AND BALLETS OF LEV IVANOV, CHOREOGRAPHER OF `THE NUTCRACKER' AND 'SWAN LAKE' by Ronald John Wiley OUP, £45, pp. 306 A strategically placed subtitle......