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A Bum Steer

Philip Glazebrook SPY ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD by Sydney Wignall Canongate, L16.99, pp. 247 I f you imagine the Iliad done as a Cony On movie, you get an idea of the......

The Pangs Of Disprized Love

Francis King PLAYING THE HARLOT by Patricia Avis Virago, £6.99, pp. 252 T his novel, completed in 1963 but only now posthumously published, elicited from Philip Larkin a......