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Town, Country And Scotland

Ross Clark KILLING TIME by Alice Thompson MAKING A SNOWMAN by Simon Rees Penguin Originals, £4.99, pp.154 WATERCOLOUR SKY by William Riviere Hodder & Stoughton, £10.95, pp.205......

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......