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Active And Passive

Anita Brookner WINTER JOURNEY by Isabel Colegate Hamish Hamilton, f14.99, pp. 200 I sabel Colegate has proved herself to be thoroughly at home with the deceits of time and has......

The Taming Of The Shrewd

G. Cabrera Infante KISSING KATE by Barbara Learning Gollancz, £13.99, pp. 250 K atharine Hepburn (called by some friends and her biographer Kate as in Kiss Me, Kate, the musical......