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More Marks On Paper

Victoria Glendinning THE WRITER'S BRUSH by Donald Friedman Mid-List Press (www.midlist.mg1 www.amazon.co.uk), distributed by Random House, £25, pp. 457, ISBN 9780922811762 £20......

A Puzzle In Four Seasons

Look at us. It must be Christmas. Our heads are bowed, the lamp close. We could be cracking a code or a body, so intent are we tonight on Spring, whose large foreground of wild......

A Yorkshire Christmas Eve

His nearby town wore annual evening-dress, cheap jewellery of lights, white fur and bright drapes of Santa red which might impress late shoppers on this final trading-night,......