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The Critical Eye Of A Single Woman

Jane Gardam CARLYLE'S HOUSE AND OTHER SKETCHES by Virginia Woolf Hespents, f4.99, pp. 88 ISBN 1843910551 W hen Virginia Woolf was 27 she bound a quarto notebook of 214 pages and......

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Francis King GOING EAST by Matthew d'Ancona Sceptre, £14.99, pp. 406 ISBN 0340828463 T his often impressive but erratic first novel begins with a tragedy. Its young protagonist,......