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Books

Dear,brilliant, ingenuous creature Juliet Townsend ELIZABETH GASKELL: A HABIT OF STORIES by Jenny Uglow Faber, £20, pp. 544 I have often thought that in that agree- able game of......

Hymns And Hearses

Anthony Blond ONLY MAN IS VILE: THE TRAGEDY OF SRI LANKA by William McGowan Picador, £6.99, pp. 398 L aura and I were married in our house in Hapugala, Ceylon where 'Every......