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Pun-lovers

Miranda Seymour Heaven and Earth Frederic Raphael (Cape £8.95) O pen University lecturers must be be- ginning to tire of being victimised by novelists who want to indicate an......

Rose Revived

Francis King As Rose Macaulay rattled around Lon- don in her little motor — peering at traffic-lights, across which she would then bump just as they turned amber, insou- ciantly......