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Doing What Comes Naturally

P. J. Kavanagh PRINCE CHARMING: A MEMOIR by Christopher Logue Faber, £20, pp. 340 A sort of biography by the poet Logue, b. 1926 into an English-Irish Roman Catholic family in......

A Wandering Minstrel

Penelope Fitzgerald MUSIC AND SILENCE by Rose Tremain Chatto, £16.99, pp. 454 I 'm not sure that music is the opposite of silence, but Rose Tremain's spellbinding new book is......

Beating Any Old Drum

Kevin Myers A STAR CALLED HENRY by Roddy Doyle Cape, £16.99, pp. 343 R oddy Doyle has pioneered an economic style of writing, conveying ambi- ent detail almost entirely through......