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Drawing His Gun, But Not His Pictures

Frances Partridge THE RULING PASSION OF JOHN GOULD: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE BIRD MAN by Isabella Tree Barrie & Jenkins, £16.99, pp. 250 H ere lies John Gould, the "Bird Man" ' was......

Five Tales Of One City

Anita Brookner CITY OF THE MIND by Penelope Lively Deutsch, £12.99, pp. 220 I n her delightful new novel Penelope Lively takes a tentative step towards post- modernism,......