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Looking Back In Sorrow

Anita Brookner MEMORIES OF THE FORD ADMINISTRATION by John Updike Hamish Hamilton, £15.99, pp. 371 ohn Updike goes post-modern' might be, but is not, the publishers' announce-......

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Brian Masters THE ASTORS by Derek Wilson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20, pp. 439 M r Wilson has contrived to cover an old tree with fresh leaves. His is not the first book to hurtle......