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Shogun And Whale Stew

Francis King MITFORD'S JAPAN edited by Hugh Cortazzi Athlone, £18 M itford's Japan? No, not an account of how Hitler despatched Unity on a secret mission to General Tojo, of how......

Neither Obscene Nor Pornographic

Miranda Seymour EROTIC TALES by Alberto Moravia Secker & Warburg, £9.50 BLACK VENUS by Angela Carter Cape, f8.95 M oravia has always made it clear that i he is not out to epater......