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Sins, Great And Small

Digby Durrant THE LENT JEWELS by David Hughes Hutchinson, £14.99, pp. 224, SBN 0091794412 D avid Hughes strolls into Carlisle Cathedral and feels an urge to confess something......

Seeing Through Glass Darkly

Sara Maitland SEA GLASS by Anita Shreve LittleBrown, £12.99, pp. 325, ISBN 0316859095 F or some time I have been baffled about why the contemporary novel is 'failing' its......