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A Still Small Voice Among The Monsters

Margaret Forster BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA by Dorothy Allison Flamingo, £5.99, pp. 309 h ere is a certain sort of contemporary American novel which is so overblown that it ends up......

Seeing Through The Past Darkly

Peregrine Hodson JOURNEY TO KHIVA by Philip Glazebrook Harvill, £16, pp. 273 J oumey to Khiva is a literary pilgrimage in the footsteps of the men who went to Central Asia as......