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She Can Fill The Unforgiving Minute With Sixty Seconds'...

Anita Brookner THE LAUGHING ACADEMY by Shena Mackay Heinemann, f13.99, pp. 136 S hena Mackay's world is peopled with eccentrics, but they appear so normal that one might be......

Books

Marriage and division Simon Heifer THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF THOMAS AND JANE WELSH CARLYLE: VOLUME 19 (January-December 1845, pp. 263) VOLUME 20 (October 1845-July 1846, pp. 262)......

A Sudden Breeze

Mind, butterflying, settles where a book lies open on a chair. The page, a while ago begun but interrupted by the sun, catches a sudden breeze, then turns over once, twice, and......