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Avoiding A Constipated Dromedary

Caroline Moorehead MY APPOINTMENT WITH THE MUSE: ESSAYS, 1961-1975 by Paul Scott Heinemann, £14.95 F or the last 18 years of his life, from the age of 40 when he stopped being a......

Snapping At The Bait

Francis King MATING BIRDS by Lewis Nkosi Constable, £8.95 F ar more American novels about life in the Deep South have concerned them- selves with perilous sexual relationships......