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A Disturbing Absence Of Disturbance

Anita Brookner THE AMATEUR MARRIAGE by Anne Tyler Chatto,iI6.99, pp. 306, ISBN 0701177349 A nnc Tyler has written 15 excellent novels — this is her 16th — which proceed......

The Best Band In The Land

Rupert Christiansen ORCHESTRA: THE LSO A CENTURY OF TRIUMPH AND TURBULENCE by Richard Morrison Faber, £20, pp. 320, ISBN 0571215831 B eing of the same age and provenance as......