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Disappearances Can Be Deceptive

Francis King IN TENNESSEE COUNTRY by Peter Taylor Chatto & Windus, £14.99, pp. 226 I n essence, this novel is an account of an obsession. As a small boy in the period of the......

Life's The Thing

Bevis Hillier VIRGINIA WOOLF by James King Hamish Hamilton, £25, pp. 699 I cannot claim that Virginia Woolf dan- dled me in my swaddling clothes, but she could have done. On my......