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A Still Small Voice Among The Monsters

Margaret Forster BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA by Dorothy Allison Flamingo, £5.99, pp. 309 h ere is a certain sort of contemporary American novel which is so overblown that it ends up......

Speaking Too Much For England

Ronald Hyam IN THE NAME OF GOD, GO!: LEO AMERY AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF CHURCHILL by Roger Louis W. W. Norton, £12.95, pp. 199 t h ere here is a long and impressive......