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Haunters Of The Margins

Sara Maitland TROUBLESOME THINGS: A HISTORY OF FAIRIES AND FAIRY STORIES by Diane Purkiss Penguin, £20, pp. 356 h e cultural history of . . .' has become one of the great......

Plods, Hacks And Drugs

Aidan Hartley THE CONSTANT GARDENER by John le Can't' Hodder, £16.99, pp. 508 J ohn le Cane omits most of the names of those in Kenya who helped him research The Constant......