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Books

The subject of virtue Philip Hensher DEATH IN SUMMER by William Trevor Viking, £15.99, pp. 213 I n every one of William Trevor's novels, and in many short stories, there is an......

Patches Of Darkness

David Crane PIECES OF LIGHT by Adam Thorpe Jonathan Cape, £16.99, pp. 488 F or the first 136 pages Adam Thorpe's new novel seems just about as good as fiction gets. The book......

Clerihew Corner

Marconi As a joke once signed a cable 'Macaroni'. Ah, they had many a good laugh In the early days of the telegraph. James Michie......