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A Time To Love And A Time To Die

Cressida Connolly THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 303 I f there is anyone out there who can write as well as Michael Ondaatje, then I'd like to......

Making A Bad Wife

Philip Hensher POOR THINGS by Alasdair Gray Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp.317 I t's hard not to like a book which includes an erratum slip which reads "The etching on page 187 does not......