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Sporting In The Spa

Miranda France T HE W IVES OF B ATH by Wendy Holden Hodder, £12.99, pp. 470, ISBN 075530067X ✆ £11.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 G eorge Orwell painted an unappetising......

By Plane, Boat, Train, Foot — And Mind

Sandy Balfour S UN A FTER D ARK by Pico Iyer Bloomsbury Paperback, £7.99, pp. 223, ISBN 074757670X F or the epigraph to this collection of occasional prose Pico Iyer rather......