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The Author Of His Being

Hugo Williams AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? by Blake Morrison Granta, £14.99, pp. 219 F athers have had a good run for their money in this age of biography and confes-......

Oh! Blame Not The Bird, If He Fly To The

bowers Peter Levi WHISTLING IN THE DARK IN PURSUIT OF THE NIGHTINGALE by Richard Mabey Sinclair-Stevenson, £9.99, pp. 120 T he loss of Geoffrey Grigson has dis- covered our......