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From Pillar To Post

Nicholas Harman IN RUINS by Christopher Woodward Chatto, £12.99, pp. 280, ISBN 070116896X W ith youth and beauty gone I had given up hope of inspiring poems. But only last year......

A Light Collation

D. J. Taylor THE DEVIL'S LARDER by Jim Crace Viking Penguin, £12.99, pp. 193 ISBN 0670881457 W hatever else may be said of Jim Crace's novels, he does at least have the merit of......