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Thoughts Of A Cockroach

Patrick Skene Catling THE ARCHY AND MEHITABEL OMNIBUS by Don Marquis Faber, f9.99, pp. 311 newspaper columnists as their columns show often have a hell of a time filling up......

The Middle Ground

Philip Glazebrook FREEDOMLAND by Richard Price Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 546 0 n an early page of one of his novels Anthony Trollope discusses the case for plunging the reader in......