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Books

The rule of silence Germaine Greer Mafioso Gala Servadio (Secker and Warburg £4.90) In the summer of 1967, I was living on a farm near a small seaside town on the southern edge......

Very Heaven

Margaret Drabble The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome, edited with an epilogue and prologue by Rupert Hart-Davis (Jonathan Cape £5.95) The name of Arthur Ransome summons up an......