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A Voracious Collector

Jeremy Treglown JOHN FOWLES: A LIFE IN Two WORLDS by Eileen Warburton Cape, £25, pp. 510, ISBN 0229059513 4 he only novelist now writing in English whose works are likely T......

Turning Towards The Light

Salley Vickers THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE by Karen Armstrong HarperCollins, £20, pp. 342, ISBN 0007122284 K aren Armstron g 's relationship to God has been a lon g and varied one. At......

Rock And Soul

Matthew Spencer JOURNEY TO THE HOLY MOUNTAIN by Christopher Merrill HarperCollins, £17.99, pp. 346, ISBN 0007119011 1 f you were a poet returnin g from warrava g ed Yu g oslavia......