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A Minor, Difficult Masterpiece

Andrew Clifford THE MARKET BELL by T.F. Powys The bynmill Press, £14.95, pp. 322 R eading a dead author's unpublished novel offers an experience akin to that one sometimes has......

When The Singing Has To Stop

J.L. Carr JAUNTING THROUGH IRELAND by Roy Kerridge Michael Joseph, £15.99, pp. 324 M r Kerridge's musings, his revela- tions, fulfil an armchair traveller's every hope: he......