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Sins Of The Father

Cressida Connolly IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE by Miranda Seymour Simon & Schuster, £14.99, pp. 270, ISBN 9780743268677 Memoirs about bad or dotty fathers — from J. R. Ackerley's (and......

The Tric World Of Faction

William Waldegrave THE SONG BEFORE IT'S SUNG by Justin Cartwright Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 275, ISBN 9780747583417 © £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 There is something odd......

Children At A Daffodil Planting

They dibble the turf with fork and trowel eagerly, eagerly going to it, each whiskery bulb unclutched and buried as we their assistants kneel beside them. Ours is the knowledge,......