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A Yarn About Yarn-spinners

Simon Baker MISS HERBERT by Adam Thirlwell Cape, £20 pp. 535, ISBN 9780224081399 £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 1 n 1937 Vladimir Nabokov described the perfect novel during......

The View From The Nursery

Juliet Townsend THE YOUNG PRETENDERS by Edith Henrietta Fowler Persephone, £12, pp. 231, ISBN 9781903155639 1 t was a perpetual source of regret to me at the age of ten that my......