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Recent First Novels

Venetia Ansell ping such animal allegorists as Orwell and Kafka, Alessandro Boffa presents us with Viskovitz, alternately mammal, fish, bird, insect, reptile and zoophyte.......

The Other Island

P. J. Kavanagh THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF IRELAND edited by Brian Lalor Gill & Macmillan, 1150, pp. 1218, ISBN 0717130002 T his massive volume weighs in at seven pounds on the......