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Charting A Minefield

Antonia Fraser BROTHER AND SISTER by Joanna Trollope Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 320, ISBN 0747570434 T he title of Joanna Trollope's new novel — Brother and Sister — arouses......

Composing For Dear Life

Rupert Christiansen MEMORIES OF SHOSTAKOVICH: INTERVIEWS WITH THE COMPOSER'S CHILDREN by the Reverend Michael Ardov, translated by Rosanna Kelly and Michael Meylac Short Books,......