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Go Tell It Off The Mountain

M. John Harrison TOUCHING THE VOID by Joe Simpson Cape, f10.95, pp.172 I n May 1985, Joe Simpson and his friend Simon Yates made an attempt on the unclimbed west face of Siula......

The Tardy Consummate Fruit

Charlotte Lennox-Boyd THE LONGMAN COMPANION TO VICTORIAN FICTION P eople who muddle up R. M. Ballan- tyne and R. D. Blackmore, Charles Lever and Samuel Lover, Lady Georgiana......