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Shimmering

Miranda Seymour Ma rcovaldo or The Seasons in the City Italo Calvino T ranslated by William Weaver (Seeker & Warburg £7.95) Light Eva Figes (Hamish Hamilton £6.95) av ing been a......

Friendly Bombs

Christopher Hawtree The Burning Book Maggie Gee (Faber and Faber £8.50) Good Friends, Just Anne Leaton (Chatto and Windus £7.95, £3.50) can see nothing objectionable in the 1......