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The Green-eyed Monster Tamed

P. N. Furbank THE FINISHING SCHOOL by Muriel Spark Penguin/Viking, £12.99, pp. 155, ISBN 0670911937 M uriel Spark once said somewhere that the whole of her novel The Prime of......

Laying A Persistent Ghost

Noble Frankland DRESDEN by Frederick Taylor Bloomsbury; £20, pp. 518, ISBN 0747570787 A lthough it probably won't, this book deserves to lay the ghost of Dresden, to demolish......