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Building Up To A Coral Reef

Patrick Skene Catling TIME WILL DARKEN IT by William Maxwell Harvill, £10.99, pp. 302 W illiam Maxwell edited New Yorker fiction for 40 years, most influentially, under Harold......

The Wolves Who Cry Wolf

James Lefanu MASS LISTERIA by Theodore Dalrymple Deutsch, £8.99, pp. 157 here was a time not so long ago when medicine dealt in reliable knowledge. The Queen Mother's hip......

An Unholy Mess

A. N. Wilson A GOLDEN BASIN FULL OF SCORPIONS: THE QUEST FOR MODERN JERUSALEM by Con Coughlin Little, Brown, .f18.99, pp. 336 T his excellent book has a misleading blurb which......