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A Selection Of Recent Thrillers

Harriet Waugh A ndrew Taylor is becoming almost as versatile as Ruth Rendell as a writer about the darker side of human folly. The Mortal Sickness (Hodder, £16.95) is the second......

Traveller Or Travel Agent?

Philip Glazebrook THE PAINTED VOYAGE: ART, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION, 1564-1875 by Michael Jacobs British Museum Press, £20, pp. 160 T his book, its illustrations interesting and......