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The Brandon Papers Quentin Bell

Able to astonish Peter Levi The Brandon Papers Quentin Bell (The Hogarth Press/Chatto & Windus £8.95) There is something frightening about the attempt to command attention from......

Other Women Lisa Alther

Hannah and Caroline Francis King Other Women Lisa Alther (Viking £8.95) Whenever some American confides in me that he or she is 'in' analysis, I shrink away as from a discussion......