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A Writer In Search Of A Subject

Anita Brookner THE PEOPLE AND UNCOLLECTED STORIES by Bernard Malamud Challo & Windus, £12.95, pp.269 H ere is a dilemma: a man who urgent- ly wants to be a writer, is indeed......

Bloody But Unbowed

Anne Somerset MARY TUDOR: A LIFE by David Loades Basil Blackwell, £19.95, pp.410 T he Mary Tudor of Protestant folklore is a fearsome creature. To John Knox, she was 'that......