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A French Connection

Gabriele Annan LE MARIAGE by Diane Johnson Chatto, £16.99, pp.336 L e Mariage is a sequel, sort of, to Diane Johnson's last novel Le Divorce. The Per- sand family, impeccably......

Will The Ira Hand In Their Weapons?

By refusing they're not enhancing The way the public views them And though the world will accuse them Of preventing the process from advancing Perhaps we should excuse them . .......

Sex In Another Form

John McEwen MERVYN PEAKE: MY EYES MINT GOLD: A LIH by Malcolm Yorke John Murray, £25, pp. 368 M alcolm Yorke has written acclaimed biographies of several artists — Gill, Matthew......