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Young Dreams

Naomi Mitch ison Ake: The Years of Childhood Wole Soyinka (Collings pp. 230, £7.50) The Witch Herbalist of the Remote Town Amos Tutuola (Faber pp. 205, £6.50, 2.95) As we should......

Fiction

Loosening up Francis King Beyond the Pale William Head pp. 256, £6.95). Trevor (Bodleyl Like the eyes with which he looks out from his window on to the world, so the novelist's......

More Filth

Lewis Jones The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan (Cape pp. 134, £5.50) Ian McEwan is by Creative Writing (University of East Anglia in the Sixties, where he was trained by......