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To The End Of The World And Back Again

Michael Davie DOWN HOME: REVISITING TASMANIA by Peter Conrad Chatto & Windus, £12.95, pp.232 A photograph on the back flap of this book is mostly of foliage, but the author is......

Aristotle Meets Rembrandt

Adrian Dannatt PICTURE THIS by Joseph Heller Macmillan, £12.95, pp.352 A merican literary success induces pa- ralysis, a masochistic certainty on the part of the author that he......

The Ghost In The Machines

Antony Lambton AGNELLI: THE NETWORK OF ITALIAN POWER by Alan Friedman Harrap, £12.95, pp.320 T he trouble with this biography is that it only superficially concentrates on......