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The Funeral Baked Meats

Mark Archer AMERICAN PSYCHO by Bret Easton Ellis Picador, £6.99, pp. 399 B ret Ellis is the despair-and-alienation king of contemporary American fiction. He is also a......

Their Island Story

Francis King THE REDUNDANCY OF COURAGE by Timothy Mo Chatto & Windus, £13.99, pp. 408 T he setting of this novel is the eastern half of an island to the north of Australia. Its......

A Casualty Of Gorilla Warfare

Brian Masters THE DARK ROMANCE OF DIAN FOSSEY by Harold Hayes Chatto & Windus, £16.99, pp.242 A nyone who has been in close collo- quy with a gorilla knows it to be a transcen-......