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The Life And Hard Times Of A Squeeze-box

Caroline Moore ACCORDION CRIMES by E. Annie Proulx Fourth Estate, £16.99, pp. 381 M any of those who admired E. Annie Proulx's magnificent second novel, The Shipping News, must......

Too Many Doors And Corridors

A. A. Gill THE BLACK BOOK by Sara Keays Doubleday, £15.99, pp. 313 T he chap in my local bookshop set out a pile of Sara Keays' first novel, The Black Book, between towers of......