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Distance Fails To Lend Enchantment

Gabriele Annan THE FOLKS THAT LIVE ON THE HILL by Kingsley Amis Hutchinson, £12.95, pp.246 T his is Kingsley Amis's'19th novel. The format is soap opera: eight to ten members of......

The Bereavement Of Mr Jones

Mr Jones was an expert In the art of origami. He would thumb through volumes Of his clean kitchen paper Before wrapping chips As though changing a nappy. He made paper hats To......

Quadruplication From The Quad

Philip Glazebrook WHERE I FELL TO EARTH: A LIFE IN FOUR PLACES by Peter Conrad Chatto, f16, pp. 252 his restless, dazzling book describes the relationship of Mr Conrad, a......