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Books

Ploys of the unemployed Philip Hensher REALITY AND DREAMS by Muriel Spark Constable, £14.95, pp. 160 R eality and Dreams is a curiously irrelevant title for this teasing, dry......

It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down

Jane Gardam EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF by Beryl Bainbridge Duckworth, f14.99, pp. 224 B eryl Bainbridge's first novel in five years is a short, taut piece of historical fiction, an......