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Grand Master

Danny Halperin Krishnamurti The Years of Awakening Mary Lutyens (John Murray £6.00) At one of a number of meetings held at Eerde, Holland, in 1928, Jiddu Krishnamurti told a......

Fiction

The new • artlessness Peter Ackroyd The Aura and the Kingfisher Tom Hart (Quartet £3.95) The real history of taste will never be written, but some recent images and diversions......