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Disoriented

Richard Shone Walter Sickert: A Biography DenYs Sutton (Michael Joseph £10.50) It is an extraordinary feat. Denys Sutton has managed to make the life of Sickert trivial.......

Gone

Duncan Fallowell The Smell of Hay Giorgio Bassani (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £3.95) Giorgio Bassani has a lovely way of moving. His boyish self slides through this collection of......

Swallows And Amazons

Benny Green The First Cuckoo Edited by Kenneth Gregory (Times Book; George Allen and Unwin £4.50) Who, apart from the obviously interested parties, reads the correspondence......