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Books

A prodigal novelist A. N. Wilson THE GOOD APPRENTICE by Iris Murdoch Chatto & Windus, f9.95 I ris Murdoch's readers divide between those who think that her characters are......

The Greatest Traveller Since Marco Polo

Auberon Waugh JACKDAW CAKE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Norman Lewis Hamish Hamilton, £9.95 I am not sure why Norman Lewis called the first volume of his autobiography Jack- daw Cake,......