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Fiction

Grandiloquent Peter Ackroyd The Understudy Elia Kazan (Collins £3.50) New Road Judy Cooke (Gollancz £3.20) The Understudy is just what it aspires to be, the mute shadow of a......

Talking Of Books

Old Flanner Benny Green From 1934 to 1939 the renowned Janet Flanner sent home to the New Yorker offices despatches on Lonon life*, and it is one of the lesser misfortunes of......