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Wild Man From The Forest Of Dean

Julian Mitchell DENNIS PO 1 1 ER: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY by Humphrey Carpenter Faber, £20, pp. 672 O xford, autumn 1956. The Suez Canal' has been running through Clarissa......

The Pains Of Progress

Paul Binding HANNA'S DAUGHTERS by Marianne Fredriksson, translated by Joan Tate Orion, £16.92, pp. 283 N othing's ever comprehensible,' thinks Anna, confronting, in late middle......