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A Marshmallow Easily Consumed

Frederic Raphael MY MOVIE BUSINESS by John Irving Bloomsbury, £12.99, pp. 177 T he novelist and screenwriter run on parallel lines which sometimes meet at the bank. Even when......

Browsing In Poisoned Pastures

Francis King ANGELICA'S GROTTO by Russell Hoban Bloomsbury, £10, pp. 271 L ike its author, the protagonist of this novel, Klein, is a small man of 72, born in America but long......