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One Of Them?

Matthew Parris ONE OF US by Hugo Young Macmillan, f16.95, pp.579 0 n deciding to leave Parliament I called on Mrs Thatcher to say — well 'Thank you and goodbye', I suppose. The......

Ring Of Falsehood

Anita Brookner A THEFT by Saul Bellow Penguin, f3.50, pp.109 C lara Velde, Bellow's entirely recog- nisable heroine, is a big, rich, excitable woman, scatty by most standards,......