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An Amiable Insanity

David Profumo A JERK ON ONE END by Robert Hughes Harvill f12, pp. 117 A lthough British piscatorial writing now broadly divides into either the techni- cal or the devotional, it......

A Song Of Sympathy

Katie Grant INDEPENDENT PEOPLE by Halldor Laxness Harvill, £10.99, pp. 544 T he most remarkable thing about this remarkable book is that it was first pub- lished when the author......