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Time-wasting

Duncan Fallowell The Children of Dynmouth Trevor (The Bodley Head £3.50) The Legend of the Thousand Bu lls Yashar Kemal (Collins £3.95) If a town like Dynmouth (Teignmouth......

Long Goodbye

Benny Green The Life of Raymond Chandler Frank MacShane (Jonathan Cape £5.50) Blessed is the biographer who can produce a book which fulfils a genuine need. Month by month the......