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Born Twee

Peter Ackroyd How to Save Your Own Life Erica Jong (Secker and Warburg 0.90) The cover may stop you reading this book; there is a photograph of something quite large and......

Paper Chains

Benny. Green The Black Girl in search of God Bernard Shaw (Penguin £1.50) Something of Myself Rudyard KiPling (Penguin 70p) Ingrained habit impels me to keep an eye on the......