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Unflinching In The Face Of Disaster

Anita Brookner MOTHERS' BOYS by Margaret Forster Chatto, £14.99, pp. 313 I n the annals of contemporary fiction Margaret Forster scores a comfortable beta plus. She deals firmly......

Novelist And President

Tony Gould A FISH IN THE WATER by Mario Vargas Llosa Faber, £17.50, pp. 532 I n the Daily Telegraph on 2 January 1989 the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa stated baldly that......

Now

Now she has gone closed in a jar as paper rustles round seeds. For fifty years she has lived alone with her husband and child by the London streets. Now she is free to fly home.......