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The Wobbling Of A Farouche Blancmange

Harriet Waugh THE CLOTHES IN THE WARDROBE by Alice Thomas Ellis Duckworth, £9.95 A lice Thomas Ellis is quintessentially a modern English novelist of the quirky tradition. Her......

Stupidity Is In The Head Of The Beholder

Anita Brookner THREE CONTINENTS by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala John Murray, (11.95 T he effect of this strange story is one of unease and disbelief, but, alas, these reac- tions far......

289 Women Of No Importance

Isabel Colegate WOMEN by Naim Attallah Quartet, £15 M r Naim Attallah, the publisher, as everyone must know by now, gave 289 women lunch. He asked them how they felt about being......