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Magic In The Air

Francis King RADIO ROMANCE by Garrison Keillor Faber, £14.99, pp. 401 h e title of this novel is doubly apt. In the first place, Keillor is writing of a quarter-century period,......

Pseudo-history Under A Pseudonym

Patrick Skene Catling CHIEF OF STAFF by William Coyle Chatio, £14.99, pp. 426 NOW AND IN TIME TO BE: IRELAND AND THE IRISH by Thomas Keneally, with photographs by Patrick......