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Thin, Uninterrupted Thread

P. J. Kavanagh A PELICAN IN THE WILDERNESS: HERMITS, SOLITARIES AND RECLUSES by Isabel Colegate HarperCollins. £16.99, pp. 284, ISBN 0002571420 W hat one might call the hermit......

Competing With A Ghost

Philip Glazebrook THE TROUSER PEOPLE by Andrew Marshall Penguin, £14.99, pp. 307. ISBN 0670892378 I t is not easy to infuse the objective of a journey with sufficient romance to......