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Waite's Great Escape

Con Coughlin TAKEN ON TRUST by Terry Waite hrodder, .f14.99, pp. 320 T erry Waite is annoyed that his reappearance on the public stage has received less than rapturous applause.......

A House With A View

Tim Parks A TUSCAN CHILDHOOD by Kinta Beevor Viking, .04.99, pp. 267 H ere's a curious tale. Penniless painter Aubrey Waterfield marries rich Lina Duff Gordon Young in 1903. And......

Meet My Worse Half

Gerald Jacobs FIMA by Amos Oz Chatto & Windus, £15.99, pp. 298 I wonder how strongly Amos Oz identi- fies with Fima, the eponymous dreamer around whom he has woven his new......