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Someone Is Going Cuckoo

Harriet Waugh THE FIFTH CHILD by Doris Lessing Cape, £9.95, pp. 128 D oris Lessing's rivetting new short novel tells in a rather unsatisfactory man- ner how one child in a......

Doctor At Large

Joseph Hone ZANZIBAR TO TIMBUKTU by Anthony Daniels John Murray, £13.95, pp.231 A frica . . . A President Bongo, so touchy over his small stature that he chooses his cabinet on......