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Flawed Portrait

Caroline Moorehead Flaws in Glass: A self-portait Patrick White (Jonathan Cape pp. 257, £7.95) M any successful Australians have been obsessed with the idea of escape and......

Purple Prose

Richard In grams Places: An Anthology of Britain ed. Ronald Blythe (Oxford University Press pp.238, £7.95) rT 1 his book, written by a clutch of well ]. known authors chosen by......