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Blaming The Wicked West

John Grimond AFRICA by Guy Arnold Atlantic, £35, pp. 1028, ISBN 1843541750 ✆ £28 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 A n unkind thought keeps coming to mind as you read this book:......

A Pattern Of Islands

Cressida Connolly E LEVEN K INDS OF L ONELINESS by Richard Yates Methuen, £7.99, pp. 221, ISBN 0413775577 ✆ £6.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 R ichard Yates’s 1961 novel......

Post-war Feuds And Dilemmas

Piers Paul Read C AMUS AT C OMBAT : W RITING 1944-1947 edited by Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi, with a foreword by David Carroll Princeton University Press, £18.95, pp. 334, ISBN......