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High-minded

Jonathan Keates Memories Frances Partridge (Gollancz pp. 248, £9.95) Loathing Bloomsbury is a little like having a severe attack of one of those illnesses which, as Shakespeare......

Fiction

Grown up fibs Francis King Music for Chameleons Truman Capote (Hamish Hamilton pp. 262, £7.95) The longest and best piece in Truman Capote's collection Music for Chameleons IS......

Lone Talent

Anthony Storr Alice James Jean Strouse (Cape pp. 363, £9.95) This book is not only a valuable addition to Leon Edel's great biography of Henry James, but also an original and......