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Yesterday I Suffered, Today I Loved

Frederic Raphael WOTAN, MY ENEMY by Leo Abse Robson, £18.95, pp. 274 I t may have the least catchy title since Howard Jacobson's Roots, Schmoots, but Leo Abse has, I am afraid,......

A Writer Pursued By A Scholar

Francis King SEAN O'FAOLAIN by Maurice Harmon Constable, £16.95, pp. 326 W hen I first met Sean O'Faolain, he was already in his eighties. Spry, quizzical and elegant, he had......