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Back To The Front

Charlotte Joll THE GHOST ROAD by Pat Barker Viking, £15, pp. 256 T he Ghost Road is the final volume of Pat Barker's trilogy about the first world war. It continues the story of......

Vision And Revision

James Simmons THE STATEMENT by Brian Moore Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 217 I have been reading and reviewing Brian Moore's work for 25 years, though I have missed some of the more......

Deus Absconditus

In every temple compound, under some tree Exhausted by its effort to grow Unwatered, yet festooned in faded silks, These bits of broken holiness abound: Stone, plaster, plastic,......