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Blue Misremembered Hills

Main de Botton THE BEND FOR HOME by Dermot Healy Harvill £14.99, pp. 307 T he Irish poet and novelist Dermot Healy has written his memoir. As we approach the end of the 20th......

A Long Way From Home

Antony Lambton ALEC DOUGLAS HOME by D. R. Thorpe Sinclair-Stevenson, £25, pp. 562 M r D. R. Thorpe has written a care- less, repetitive, unstructured book littered with bad......