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Worse Than Martin Amis

Albert Read RADON DAUGHTERS by lain Sinclair Cape, £15.99, pp. 458 R adon Daughters is an extraordinary piece of writing — but mostly for the wrong reasons: the feelings it......

She's Going To Eat The Albatross

Eric Jacobs RUSHING TO PARADISE by J. G. Ballard Flamingo, £14.99, pp. 239 W h J. G. Ballard you never quite know where you are — in the real world or one partly or wholly......

Swiss Family Of Survivors

Nigel Clive HELGA by Helga Gerhardie Virona, £6.99, pp. 433 h is rare slice of autobiography comes from Helga Zirkel, Swiss by birth and now married to an Englishman, who was......