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Not Roses, Roses All The Way

Jane Gardam LEARNING TO TALK by Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate, £6.99, pp. 160, ISBN 0007166443 W e look out eagerly for anything new from Hilary Mantel, These six stories, with an......

Cook's Tour With Cool Comments

Giles Waterfield THE BOOK OF SALT by Monique Truong Chatto. 412.99, pp. 261, ISBN 0701175222 B inh is the Vietnamese cook to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Paris, until......