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A Chip Off The Old Block

Andro Linklater J ohn Fowles has not published a novel since A Maot came out in 1985, an intolerably long wait for those of us who consider him the most mesmerising story-......

Books Do Furnish A Mind

Stephen Spender UNDER REVIEW: FURTHER WRITINGS ON WRITERS by Anthony Powell Heinemann, £25, pp.467 I n these 'further writings on writers' (most of them 1,000-word reviews), Mr......