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A Tale Of Shameless Sensation

Juliet Townsend THE CHASE by Louisa May Alcott Century, £12.99, pp. 242 A ny reader of Little Women or Good Wives will know that Jo, the character based so closely on Louisa May......

Triolet

You are still beautiful by candlelight. I watch you eagerly across the room Seeing each wrinkle smoothed, each puff pulled tight. You are still beautiful by candlelight, A......

At Last The Undivided Self

Jake Michie JUNK MAIL by Will Self Bloomsbury, £12.99, pp. 402 A lthough Will Self is a prominent and garlanded feature of the British liter- ary topography (to use one if his......