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Chekhov And Son

Charlotte Moore FELIX IN THE UNDERWORLD by John Mortimer Viking, £16.99, pp. 247 h is is a novel about a novelist. Felix Morsom, a widower and lonely without knowing it, leads a......

A Lost World

Peter Levi COURTESANS AND FISHCAKES by James Davidson HarperCollins, f25, pp.371 T he pleasures of knowing Greek include immediate communication with a world very unlike ours,......

A Gangster Takes On The State

Philip Hensher NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cape, £16.99, pp. 370. T hough it doesn't live up to the excite- ment of a new novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the......