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Books

Not quite fool enough Colin Welch THE JAGUAR SMILE: A NICARAGUAN JOURNEY by Salman Rushdie Picador, f2.95 W hat sort of a book about Sandinista Nicaragua would you expect from......

Vestal February

`Vestal February' old Patmore called her (The sun enters the fish's cold, damp house) But now with such an unremitting chill she comes, You might suppose she'd taken final vows.......

Split Island In The Sun

Ian Gilmour BURDENED WITH CYPRUS: THE BRITISH CONNECTION by John Reddaway Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.95 A mong all the other political black- spots Cyprus tends to be forgotten;......