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Gothic And Comic Thrillers

Harriet Waugh GALLOWGLASS by Barbara Vine Viking, f13.99, pp.296 THE CAVALIER CASE by Antonia Fraser Bloomsbury, £12.99, pp.209 A gallowglass is an ancient Irish word for a......

Discovering America Before Columbus

Mark Illis THE ICE-SHIRT by William T. Vollmann Deutsch, £13.95, pp.412 In olden times one Floxi from Sodor ex- claimed, upon first seeing Snaefellsness, `This must be a great......