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What's Wrong With Somerville?

Lewis Jones STILL LIFE by A.S. Byatt ChattolHogarth, £9.95 S till Life is a romance of academe, of Cambridge in particular. Frederica Potter, the heroine, receives telegrams......

Modesty And Moderation Allow Spills But No Thrills

Patrick Skene Catling HERE LIES ERIC AMBLER by Eric Ambler Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £10.95 mysterious gas which may have caused all his car into a ditch beside the Lausanne-......