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Fiction

Mawkish moments Peter Ackroyd Flesh And Blood Emyr Humphreys (Hodder and Stoughton £2.95) Love Letters on Blue Paper Arnold Wesker (Jonathan Cape £1.95) Maggie Cassidy Jack......

Talking Of Books

Patriotic gore Benny Green The day after reading T. S. Matthews's memoir of Edmund Wilson in last week's Spectator, I Picked up a newly published book and read, apropos Wilson's......

I3ookbuyer's

Bookend Well, there's no sense in beating about the bush. This week is Prediction Week, and the best opportunity of the year for readers to catch Bookbuyer out. Here then is a......