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The Ginko And The Sycamore

The autumn leaf that's falling through your mind Has fallen through a million minds before, And will fall on through countless millions more, Like countless million others of......

The Uncrowned King Of Ireland

Victoria Glendinning THE LAUREL AND THE IVY: THE STORY OF CHARLES STEWART PARNELL AND IRISH NATIONALISM by Robert Kee Hamish Hamilton, f20, pp. 659 C harles Stewart Parnell, son......

Does The Road Wind Downhill All The Way?

Paul Bailey THE ROAD TO SAN GIOVANNI by Italo Calvino, translated by Tim Parks Cape, £12.99, pp. 150 I n the first of the five previously uncollected pieces that make up this......