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Acting Out

Peter Ackroyd A Loving Eye Janice Elliott (Hodder and Stoughton £4.25) If you're going to write family 'sagas', or turn somebody's life into a mixture of sex and anguish, then......

Enter Prince

Benny Green That Sunny Dome Donald Low (Dent e5.95) At a moment when more and more literary journalists seem to be straining after analogous relationships between Britain after......