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Blessings In Disguise

Charlotte Moore MISSING THE MIDNIGHT by Jane Gardam Sinclair-Stevenson, £10, pp. 212 n this pleasingly compact volume of stories, Jane Gardam imbues everyday life with the......

Two Middle-aged Men In Motion

Kate Grimond A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson Doubleday, £16.99, pp. 320 T avel writing is a remarkably durable literary genre. The world may shrink; few parts, bar the......

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