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Hit With A Blunt Instrument

Noel Annan LOOKING FOR MR NOBODY by Jenny Rees Weidenfeld, L18.99, pp. 291 H alloween has come and gone and the skeletons of the Cambridge spies are still dancing. Three books......

He Wouldn't A-wooing Go

John Whitworth WHO WILL RUN THE FROG HOSPITAL? by Lorrie Moore Faber, f14.99, pp. 148 his is a short novel, and somewhere round it the word 'poetic' beats its bat-like wings. It......

To The High Court Of Parliament

November 1994 Where's probity in this - the slither-frisk to lordship of a kind as rats to a bird-table? England — now for genius the eidolon - unsubstantial yet voiding......