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Essayist

Benny Green The Americans Alistair Cooke (Bodley Head £5.95) The composition of a radio script to be read by the writer has little to do with literature. In the pragmatic sense,......

Reincarnate

Paul Ableman rhe Mangan Inheritance Brian Moore ( Cape £5.50) l'his is a marvellous book. The prose is rich 4nd flexible and, as it generates people and Places and thoughts,......