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Vengeful Brush Strokes

Allan Massie T HE P ORTRAIT by Iain Pears HarperPerennial, £8.99, pp. 211, ISBN 0007202776 I ain Pears is a risk-taking novelist. He does not repeat himself. This is no way to......

Bring On The Colander Girls

Hugh Massingberd W HAT C AN I D O T O H ELP ? by Deborah Hutton Short Books, £7.99, pp. 251, ISBN 1904977391 L ike Groucho Marx I tend to be rather ambivalent about joining......