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They Danced Together In The Sun Which Briefly Warmed The

autumn air, They — heeding but the one the one, I — speeding at the fragile pair: Car-bonnet dipped its dark blue shine, And paused, and gave them time to flee; And (could one......

How Else

No illusions? but how else to blunder on what's worth the finding around the next corner and is no delusion?......

That's No Lady, That's My Mum

Janet Barron SYLVIA'S LOT by Teresa Waugh Sinclair-Stevenson, £14.99, pp. 218 D ivorce, loneliness, alcoholism and suicide might not seem promising topics for a light-hearted......

Still Making Trouble After All These Years

David Caute IBADAN: THE PENKELEMES YEARS, A MEMOIR, 1946-1965 by Wole Soyinka Methuen, £20, pp. 383 A lthough Wole Soyinka is 60 this year he shows no sign of relinquishing his......

Do Not Presume Too Much Upon Our Love

David Nokes PRESUMPTION: A SEQUEL TO JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Julia Barrett Michael O'Mara Books, £9.99, pp. 238 I t is a truth universally acknowledged (among......