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Books

A s I profess no Passion for Essays, Spectator's plea that I discuss a mighty volume comprised entirely of those opin- ionated exercises, might well have missed its mark, had......

Nor Uncle Me No Uncle

Francis King BEFORE THE RAINY SEASON by Gert Hofman Secker & Warburg, £14.99, pp. 346 T he year is 1968. Two young Germans, a man "and his fiancée, make the arduous journey out......