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Private Faces Wiser And Nicer Than Public Places

Anne Chisholm CASTING OFF by Elizabeth Jane Howard Macmillan, £15.99, pp. 242 W ith this volume, the fourth in her sequence entitled The Cazalet Chronicle, Elizabeth Jane Howard......

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......

Visitation

Her absence is a presence, An unaccustomed silence That scratches the kitchen door Or thumps its tail on the floor Distant as death is near, The daughter who held her dear Lifts......