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Books Do Furnish A Life

Emily Berens TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE by Bohumil Hrabal Deutsch, f9.99, pp. 98 S hort, sharp and eccentric, this novel, written as a monologue, reconfirms Bohumil Hrabal's......

A Change Of Clothes

Always I knew there'd been knitted rugs pat on the lino in my parents' room, punts to push off on or stepping stones I could change on a whim, to frighten myself, into......

A Duchess Of The Revolution

Linda Kelly AT THE COURT OF NAPOLEON: MEMOIRS OF THE DUCHESS OF ABRANTES translated by Oliver Bernier The Windrush Press, f20, pp. 387 T he memoirs of the Duchesse d'Abrantes......