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All Human Life Is There

Caroline Moorehead THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING by Alaa Al Aswany, translated by Humphrey Davies Fourth Estate, £14.99, pp. 255, ISBN 9780060878139 £11.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429......

Funny Peculiar And Ha-ha

Eric Weinberger THE CASTLE IN THE FOREST by Norman Mailer Little, Brown, f17.99, pp. 496, ISBN 0394536495 £1439 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Rumours and published reviews to......