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Swings And Roundabouts

Allan Massie BIRTHDAY by Alan Sillitoe Flamingo, 116.99, pp. 249, ISBN 0007107811 T here was a time when the English provincial novel was fashionable — from, say, the early......

A Richly Personal Matter

Jonathan Keates READING PICTURES: A HISTORY OF LOVE AND HATE by Alberto Manguel Bloomsbury, £30, pp. 337, ISBN 0747552959 T he title of this book is likely to provoke outrage in......