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James Hughes Onslow Music For Chameleons, Truman Capote (Sphere £1.50) 14 short stories, based mostly on im- probable characters Capote really has met — like the Martinique......

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Violet Powell Stories from the Raj: From Kipling to In- dependence Selected and introduced by Saros Cowasjee, with a Preface by Paul Theroux (The Bodley Head £7.50) f the 15......