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Making The Best Of It

Gabriele Annan FALLING SLOWLY by Anita Brookner Viking, £15.99, pp. 224 A nita Brookner is not everyone's cup of tea. Lager-lout critics who don't like any kind of tea tend to......

Yearlong Paranoia Binge

Tom Hiney THE WIND UP BIRD CHRONICLE by Haruki Murakami Harvill, £10.99, pp. 616 T he themes of this big novel paranoia, sterility, general loss of national Confidence — are......