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Novelist In Grub Street

Jonathan Keates Henry Fielding: A Biography Pat Rogers (Elek £8.95) What is it about Fielding's work that makes one not want to read about his life? Biographers continue to......

Stone Walls

Alan Gibson Dartmoor Prison Rufus Endle (Bossinney Books 90p) This is a slight book, no more than a long essay, but a good one. The author, whom I r emember as a tubby, ruddy,......

Pioneers

Paul Ableman The Lover A.B. Yehoshua Trans. Philip Simpson (Heinemann £4.95) 'And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he......