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Beginning With Revelations

D. Jr. Taylor WOMEN AND GHOSTS by Alison Lurie Heinemann, £1299, pp. 182 hat makes a good ghost story? Apart from their scholarly background, which allows antiquarian heroes to......

Stiffening The Sinews

M. R. D. Foot DUNKIRK — ALAMEIN - BOLOGNA by Christopher Seton-Watson Buckland Publications, 125 High Holborn, London WC1V 6QA, tel: 071 242 8481, £14.95, pp. 290 urrent......

The End Of The Terrace

She sees soldiers in her attic, Papers melt on her stair, A child stops in her hallway `I don't want to go in there.' I wait in the warm basement Thick coffee on the spoon I......