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Conjuring Tricks

Mary Hope Voices in an Empty Room Francis King (Hutchinson £8.95) F rincis King's craft is now such, that embarking on his latest novels is like getting into a superbly......

Unacknowledged Prophet

Peter Ackroyd The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud Henry Miller W ith an introduction by Anthony Burgess (Quartet £7.95) H enry Miller's essential view of Arthur n......