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Laughter Laced With Pain

Michael Horowitz THE BEST LOVED POEMS OF JOHN BETJEMAN John Murray, £8.99, pp. 112. ISBN 0719565456 I n Against Oblivion: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets, Ian Hamilton......

Being Prodigal With The Truth

Raymond Carr LIVING TO TELL THE TALE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cape, £18.99, pp. 483, ISBN 0224072781 G abriel Garcia Marquez, according to a recent poll of prominent literati,......