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Overtones

Benny Green Victorian Fantasy Stephen Prickett (Harvester £12.50) Pricketi is an auspicious name for The author of a book about Victorian sublimations; it is like a brewer being......

Ambiguous

Paul Ableman The Twyborn Affair Patrick White (Cape £5.95) 'Eadie said I must not fail Eadith now that I have found her Eadith Eddie no matter which this fragment of my self......