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A Story Of The Preternatural

Antonia Douro THE LIFTED VEIL by George Eliot Virago Modern Classics, £2.50 T here is veiled irony in Virago Modern Classics, who confess to choosing books `because they......

China From Inside And Out

Giles Mathews STONES OF THE WALL by Dai Houying Michael Joseph, f9.95 TO GET RICH IS GLORIOUS by Orville Schell Robin Clark, f9.95 S ince 1978 China has been settling down into......