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Historical Fiction With A Twist

Roger Clarke THE GRISLY WIFE by Rodney Hall Faber, £14.99, pp. 261 P rovincial Australia; late 19th-century. A police sergeant calls at the house of Catherine Byrne during the......

Living In His Mild And Magnificent Eye

Bruce Bernard BRUCE CHATWIN: PHOTOGRAPHS AND NOTEBOOKS edited by David King and Francis Wyndham, Cape, £20, pp. 160 B ruce Chatwin had a 'legendary eye', something that the......