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Exaggerations Rather Than Fantasies

Isabel Colegate THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA by Isabel Allende Hamish Hamilton, £13.99, pp. 250 I sabel Allende's most recent novel — her third — was Eva Luna, which estab- lished......

Cocktails And Laughter, But What Came After?

Philip Glazebrook SHANGHAI by Harriet Sergeant Cape, £16.99, pp. 384 I n 1832 an agent of the East India Company, Hugh Lindsay, was searching the China coast for a site upon......