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Vagueness And Winking

Michael Hulse CHILDREN OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT by Nicholas Mosley Secker, £15.99, pp. 241 T wards the end of her life, Agatha Christie wrote one or two sublimely befuddling and......

A New Man Out Of Africa

Barbara Trapido IMAGININGS OF SAND by Andre Brink Secker, £15.99, pp. 351 h is novel is both a documentary on the last days of apartheid and a family saga presented as......

Sand

Sand is at the door, Its progress through the keyhole slow: I raise both hands to hold it back before Sand inches, grain by grain, along the hallway floor: Among the slippers,......