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Under The Influences

Caroline Moore BLESS THE THIEF by Alan Wall Secker, £15.99, pp. 212 T his is Alan Wall's first novel. The only other work of his I have read, Jacob, was a rich, strange and......

Books

Strangers and a brother David Sexton THE COLLECTED STORIES by Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton, £20, pp. 660 P aul Theroux, a great placer himself, is oddly difficult to place. His......