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A Lovely Patch Of Jungle

Jonathan Mirsky CLOUDS OF GLORY: A HOXTON CHILDHOOD by Bryan Magee Cape, £17.99, pp. 343, ISBN 02240159799 1 n 1890 Hoxton, in the East End, was deemed by Charles Booth, the......

A Taste For The Amoral

Honor Clerk BEAUTIFUL SHADOW: A LIFE OF PATRICIA HIGHSMITH by Andrew Wilson Bloomsbury, 125, pp. 534, ISBN 0747563144 H ow disappointing that the creator of Tom Ripley, Edith......

Cry African Girl

Up in the azure sky shoots the sun's rays The sun with its mellow rays Rises to meet another day, another promise To me it's not yet any hope's ray As more rays weigh down my......