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Recounting The Cost

Sam Phipps REQUIEM FOR THE EAST by Andrei Makine, translated by Geoffrey Strachan Sceptre, f16.99, pp. 262, ISBN 0340794356 A ndrei Makine has been compared to Nabokov, Chekhov,......

Small Earthquake In Somerset

Nicholas Harman A HOUSE UNLOCKED by Penelope Lively Penguin, £14.99, pp. 225, ISBN 0670899542 S uccessful novelists bereft of a plot too often make literary journeys or write......