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Flights Upon The Banks

Philip Hensher THAMES: SACRED RIVER by Peter Ackroyd Chatto, £25, pp. 608, ISBN 9780701172843 © £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 For some reason, the sight of the sea or a......

Once More With Less Feeling

Sebastian Smee DIARY OF A BAD YEAR by J. M. Coetzee Harvill Secker, £16.99, pp. 231, ISBN 9781846551208 £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 In the last scene of J. M.......