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Reel Life

Peter Ackroyd A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick (Gollanci SZ3 . 50) The title gives nothing away; it is vaguely Biblical and vaguely Pauline, and suggests that life is not what it......

Tensions

Benny Green The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling Angus Wilson (Secker and Warburg; £6.90) The Kipling industry burgeons. In the recent past we have had books about him by Philip......