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Death In The Sun Postponed

Anita Brookner THE LAST RESORT by Alison Lurie Chatto, £15.99, pp. 254 I nto the stagy, semi-tropical setting of Key West — frangipani, hibiscus, bougainvillea, mosquito nets —......

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Jonathan Mirsky NO DOGS AND NOT MANY CHINESE by Frances Wood John Murray, £25, pp. 368 h e most preposterous notions were formed as to the demand that was to spring up for our......