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Double, Double, Toil And Trouble

Candia Mc William ELECTRIC SHEPHERD: A LIKENESS OF JAMES HOGG by Karl Miller Faber, £25, pp. 401 ISBN 0571218164 Arresting. this. Even more arresting is a later cry from the......

Local Colour Laid On Thick

Sebastian Smee THE CLERKFNWELL TALES by Peter Ackroyd Chatto, £15.99, pp, 213 ISBN 1856197069 W hat makes Peter Ackroyd's new novel a failure as fiction is also, strange to say,......