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Truly Interesting Horses

Margaret Forster BARN BLIND by Jane Smiley Flamingo, £5.99, pp. 218 arvellous, isn't it, how an author's first novel can suddenly be worth the risk of publishing when their......

Gunpowder, Treason And Plots

Philip Glazebrook ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE by Peter Hopkirk John Murray, £19.99, pp. 418 T he author of this pacy, readable account of Anglo-German conflict in......

Drinking Brandy On Whitstable Beach

(for Naomi and Tim) As if this is what I was meant for and it's taken forever to find place and vocation. I'm swashbuckling, hearty and fresh from the sea. Over the sea-honed......