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Darkness At Noon

John de Falbe ECLIPSE by John Banville Picador, £15.99, pp. 214 J ohn Banville's work is so consistently good that a new novel by him must be approached with a flutter of......

A Romantic Utopian Looks Forward In Anger

John Vincent THE EDGE OF NOW by David Howell Macmillan, £18.99, pp. 392 T his is a young man's book, assertive, pugnacious, lashing out in all directions, decidedly fierce, and......