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A Dream Made Flesh

Alice Thomas Ellis TWO FAT LADIES RIDE AGAIN by Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson Ebury Press, £17.99, pp. 192 Y ears ago on first meeting Jennifer Paterson when she......

Farewell, My Lovely

Anita Brookner NIGHT TRAIN by Martin Amis Cape, £10.99, pp. 149 T he psychotic confidence of Martin Amis's new novel is no less worrying because its subject is psychotic......

Good Conversation Is Essential

Alain de Botton HISTORY OF MY LIFE: VOLUMES 1-12 by Giacomo Casanova, translated by Willard R. Trask Johns Hopkins University Press, f66 T he only thing everyone knows about......