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Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man?

Eric Jacobs YOU CAN'T DO BOTH by Kingsley Amis Hutchinson, £15.99, pp. 306 S ince the blurb of this novel reveals it to be 'strongly autobiographical', let me at once declare an......

The Dancer Not The Dance

Warwick Collins PROLOGUE by Joan Brady Deutsch, £14.99, pp. 224 J o . an Brady's novel Theory of War, pub- lished last year, astonished this reviewer with its virtuosity. It......

After Reading Charles Sisson's 'broadmead Brook' For C.h.s.

'Where in another century my mother Had played and laboured.' There, for him, all was changed. For me his lines recalled a Lowland valley My forbears laboured in: with nothing......