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Getting Even With A Genius

Patrick Skene Catling MRS EINSTEIN by Anna McGrail Doubleday, .E15.99, pp. 333 A nna McGrail's second novel (her first was called Blood Sisters) is an ingeniously speculative......

Genteelly Clearing The Decks

Jonathan Keates BENJAMIN BRITTEN'S OPERAS by Michael Wilcox Absolute Press, £6.99, pp. 96 A ll works of art, no matter how long ago they were created or how fragmentary our......