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Journey Into Fear

Anita Brookner TO THE CITY by Gillian Tindall Hutchinson, f9.95 J oe Beech, a London publisher, pre- pares for a skiing holiday in Austria with his family. The various forms of......

Heart Lost In Darkness

Francis King A SPORT OF NATURE by Nadine Gordimer Cape, £10.95 T here are novels, some of them even masterpieces, in which the author, having set out to explore his protagonist,......

Philosophy Ascended The Throne

Jasper Griffin MARCUS AURELIUS: A BIOGRAPHY by Anthony Birley Batsford, £19:95 M ore than 500 years after Plato made his celebrated claim that the world would never be well run......