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Open Lies To Cover Truth

Teresa Waugh INCIDENTS IN THE RUE LAUGIER by Anita Brookner Cape, £14.99, pp. 219 T he trouble with Anita Brookner's new novel is that you cannot get it out of your mind. Once......

Exhausted By Excellence

Jane Gardam JANE AUSTEN'S LETTERS edited by Deirdre Le Faye OUP, £30, pp. 672 T he first Oxford edition of these letters was R. W. Chapman's in 1932 after ten years' work, his......