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The Man Who Has Nothing To Offer

John Bayley A PRIVATE VIEW by Anita Brookner Cape, £14.99, pp. 219 A dorable Anita Brookner! And as adorable as a man as she is as a woman! But steady the buffs, that's hardly......

He Endured, But By Degrees Dwindled Into A Representative

Francis King JAMES BALDWIN by David Leeming Michael Joseph, £20, pp. 442 T he life recounted in this biography was, despite all its excesses and absurdities, an heroic one. Few......