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Don't Lose Your Voice

John Bayley THE ANTI-EGOIST: KINGSLEY AMIS, MAN OF LEI-YEAS by Paul Fussell OUP, £14.99, pp. 206 P honey. An almost obsolete word? It obsessed Kingsley Amis and his generation......

Making Simplicity A Grace

John McEwen DIRT AND DEITY by Ian McIntyre HarperCollins, £20, pp. 461 T his year marks the bicentenary of Robert Bums's death, a global event promising an avalanche of......