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A Nthony D Aniels J. G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come (fourth...

is a dyspeptic vision of a dystopian Britain that has already halfarrived. He is a close observer of our national malaise: indiscriminate consumerism combined with a sense of......

S Am L Eith There Were A Lot Of Old Favourites Performing

well this year in fiction. Martin Amis’s gulag story House of Meetings (Cape, £15.99) was terrific, though he must be sick to his new back teeth of hearing it accorded the......

D Igby D Urrant How Did Siegfried Sassoon At 42 In The

throes of a love affair with Stephen Tennant, the most flamboyant homosexual in the land, and moving in the same smart circle as the Sitwells and the Garsington set, shut......

L Ee L Angley Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder...

me on every page. Eleven stories with a narrator who shares Atwood’s sardonic, lethal humour, ability to inspire laughter and touch the heart. Family life, memory, the rueful......