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A Failed Kiss Of Life

Stephen Abell CHAUCER: BRIEF LIVES by Peter Ackroyd Chatto, £12.99, pp. 144, ISBN 0701169850 F or a writer or critic to describe somethin g as 'interestin g ' is, of course,......

Outposts Of The Imagination

John de Falbe ISLANDS by Dan Sleigh Secker, f17.99, pp. 758, ISBN 043620620X T his novel, translated from the Afrikaans by Andre Brink, was offered to me for review with an......