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Suspicion Torment My Soul

Anita Brookner SECOND SPRING by Max Egremont Hamish Hamilton, £14.99, pp. 275 M ax Egremont is a misleadingly urbane writer who deals with various forms of betrayal, usually in......

But Not The Passions Of The Slaves

John Spurling CROSSING THE RIVER by Caryl Phillips Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 237 C rossing the River begins with the remorse of a West African farmer who has sold his three......

Fast Falls The Eventide

Harriet Waugh THE DYING OF THE LIGHT by Michael Dibdin Faber, £9.99, pp. 151 M ichael Dibdin writes comedies, whether they be detective novels, starring his all-too-convincingly......