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I'm Nobody's Baby Now

Anne Chisholm DADDY'S GIRL by Janet Inglis Constable, £12.99, pp. 393 O livia, the heroine of this unnervingly sexy, poignant and readable first novel is an ordinary, streetwise......

A Beastly Business

Anthony Daniels HOW WE DIE by Sherwin B. Nuland Chatto, £15. 99, pp. 278 N o matter how many times we are told by philosophers that life would be deprived of its meaning if we......

Still Thinking Continually

William Scammell DOLPHINS by Stephen Spender Faber, £12.99, £5.99, pp. 46 E r Yeats, Lowell and Spender alike, dolphins are a manifestation of happiness and delight. Spender's......