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Magical Chile And Unhappy Ireland

Harriet Waugh THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS by Isabel Allende Cape, £8.95 THE KILLEEN by Mary Leland Hamish Hamilton, £895 I sabel Allende's exceptionally mature first novel, The......

Instead Of An Elegy

When I think of that terrible evening in Brussels, when those stunted and twisted morons we shipped over (why?) made a poultice for their inner-city aggro made up of some forty......