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Restoration, Creation And Imagination

Henry Hobhouse P erhaps because they live in such a Crowd with not much more than an acre of good land each, the English try to compose in their gardens an illusion of space by......

Artfully, Seriously Ludic

Anita Brookner HEADLONG by Michael Frayn Faber, £16.99, pp. 3954 T he journey begins with a literal jour- ney: a couple travelling north with their young baby. They are going to......