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Revelations

Patrick Skene Catling he Shelf is long for a letter to a friend , I no matter how sympathetic (109 Pag es) ' but the epistolary form is well suited to Kay Dick' s style in this......

Highly Suspect

Francis King The Suburbs of Hell Randolph Stow (Seeker & Warburg £7.95) R andolph Stow's is so idiosyncratic a talent that it is both surprising and disconcerting to find the......