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From Inverness-shire To Kumbum

Hugh Ma ssingberd PAST FORGETTING by Veronica Maclean Review, £20, pp. 374, ISBN 0755310241 T he title of Veronica Maclean's bracing, breezy and often moving memoir comes from a......

Meat And Drink For The Imagination

Judith Flanders THE CHILD THAT BOOKS BUILT by Francis Spofford Faber; f12.99, pp. 212, ISBN 0571191320 I sat on the second stair in our house in a Montreal suburb. The dog......