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So, Back To The Shop

John Bowen THE GLASS NIGHT by John de Falbe Cuckoo Press, £7.99, pp. 274 I n April 1719 Robinson Crusoe, a first novel by Daniel Defoe, was published and, we're told, the novel......

The Return Of The Trolls

David Caute SOPHIE'S WORLD: A NOVEL ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY by Jostein Gaarder Phoenix House, £16.99, pp. 403 E r the best part of a century, post- Ibsen, we have sought......