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Bathing, And Booze And Birds

John Whitworth FLAUBERT by Herbert Lottman Methuen, £17.95, pp.396 So the shit in the shuttered chateau Who does his five hundred words Then parts out the rest of the day......

A Dark And Troubling Business

Nicholas Lezard PUNISHMENTS by Francis King Hamish Hamilton, f11.95, pp.198 T hese days, we look at prolific authors as at mothers of unviably large families (when will they get......