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A Day In The Life Of A Surgeon

Anita Brookner SATURDAY by Ian McEwan Cape, £17.99, pp. 279, ISBN0224072994 ✆ £15.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 A s a foreword to this excellent novel Ian McEwan quotes a......

Foxes

A new fox has come. The last one lingered long after a righteous but ill-placed bullet. Our case was airtight, forty chickens, fifteen ducks, one ancient goose. We had glimpses......