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No Match For Mr Pinfold

Michael Davie THE BRIDESHEAD GENERATION: EVELYN WAUGH AND HIS FRIENDS by Humphrey Carpenter Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £17.95, pp.523 n Humphrey Carpenter and his pub- lishers......

Of Love And Death

Anita Brookner FALLING by Colin Thubron Heinemann, £10.95, pp.152 h e obsessive love affair used to inspire more novels than it does today, as if obsessive love were the one......