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Ladles Of Lovely Stuff

Alan Coren THE ELIZA STORIES by Barry Pain Prion, £9.99. pp. 360, ISBN 1853754722 0 ccasionally, when — by surfing accident or hacking duty — my television screen clogs up with......

Craving Fire And Ardour

Hilary Mantel YOUTH by J. M. Coetzee Secker & Warburg, pp. I69, ISBN 0436205823 I t must have been hard to grow up in apartheid South Africa: how do you acquire the subtleties......