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The Depth Of His Potato Love

Anita Brookner MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK by Saul Bellow The Alison Press/Secker & Warburg, f10.95 S aul Bellow is fiction's outstanding au- thority on what he himself has called......

Thinking Of Real Things In Their Absence

Anthony Storr MEMORY by Mary Warnock Faber, £11.95 M ary Warnock describes her new book as a sequel to Imagination (Faber, 1976), which many readers will remember as a notable......