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D. J. Taylor COAST TO COAST by Frederic Raphael Orion, £16.99, pp. 231 S ome years ago I published a book about English fiction of the post-1945 era called — unremarkably, it......

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Francis King THE SPELL by Alan Hollinghurst Chatto, £15.99, pp. 257 T he spell which gives its title to this arrestingly self-confident novel is that of addiction: the addiction......

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