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A Fusillade From The Last Ditch

Jane Gardam GOD HAS NOT CHANGED by Alice Thomas Ellis Burns & Oates, £9.99, pp. 180, ISBN 0860123596 H ere are 90 furious little spats about our extraordinary and inadequate......

Service With A Smile

Elfreda Pownall THE PEOPLE'S CHEF: ALEXIS SOYER, A LIFE IN SEVEN COURSES by Ruth Brandon Wiley, £16.99, pp. 320, ISBN 0470869917 E14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 A lexis......

In Flight From The Green Forest

In the green forest of Petropolis The Great Lady of the Madrugada Walked with me the boundaries of her fazenda. Toucans watched the paths that joined the valleys. Her......