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Magician Of The Humdrum

Anita Brookner TOWARD THE END OF TIME by John Updike Hamish Hamilton, £16.99, pp. 342 h e year is 2020, and certain changes have taken place. War between the United States and......

Revisiting Troubled Waters

James Michie WINTER SEA: WARS, JOURNEYS, WRITERS by Alan Ross Harvill, £14.99, pp. 152 B efore Winter Sea I had never read a travel book by Alan Ross, indeed any book about the......