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Two-way Traffic

Allan Massie Portable Utopia: Glasgow and the United States, 1820-1920 Bernard Aspinwall (Aberdeen University Press £18.50) G lasgow is sometimes described as the most easterly......

The Feel Of The Air

Patrick Skene Catling The Ledge Between the Streams Ved Mehta (Harvill Press £12.50) A y writer, when writing, is an intro- verted solitary. A blind writer's isola- tion must be......