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A Long And Winding Road

Sandy Balfour T HE P RESTER Q UEST by Nicholas Jubber Doubleday, £14.99, pp. 516, ISBN 1385607024 ✆ £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 H aving read The Prester Quest almost......

A Master Of Ambiguities

Rupert Christiansen W ILLIAM E MPSON : V OLUME I: A MONG THE M ANDARINS by John Haffenden OUP, £30, pp. 692, ISBN 01992766595 ✆ £30 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 S chool......