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Till The Music Stops

Charlotte Moore LET'S DANCE by Frances Hegarty Viking £15, pp. 277 L et's Dance tells the story of Serena Burley, 'one-time intellect and beauty of this and other parishes,' now......

For Ever Hold Up His Peace

C. D. C. Armstrong JOHN HUME: PEACEMAKER by George Drower Gollancz, £16.99, pp. 223 J ohn Hume is without question the most widely admired and influential of Ulster's......

Puddle

In the squeeze of a puddle where the light declines and the rub of cobbles nudge the surface like the backs of whales, I saw my life - shallow, thin and negligible, muddled and......