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New Interests In An Old Setting

Anita Brookner LOVING AND GIVING by Molly Keane Andre Deutsch, f10.95,pp. 233 T here is a certain ambiguity in Molly Keane's story of the beautiful Nicandra, as if tragedy might......

The Return Of The Signified

Laurence Lerner NICE WORK by David Lodge Secker & Warburg, f10.95, pp.277 D avid Lodge is a lively comic novelist whose entertaining stories give a realistic picture of......

Passion And Intrigue Around The Throne

Steven Runciman KING CAROL II: A LIFE OF MY GRANDFATHER by Prince Paul of Hohenzollern- Roumania Methuen, £14.95, pp. 238 R eally! This might be Roumania!', exclaimed Queen Mary......