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Unappealing Little Blighters

Charlotte Raven CHANGING BABIES by Deborah Moggach Heinemann, £15.99, pp. 227 DEAR GEORGE by Helen Simpson Heinemann, £12.99, pp. 153 THAT BAD WOMAN by Clare Boylan Little......

To Thine Own Self Be True

Alasdair Palmer RE-WRITING THE SOUL: MULTIPLE PERSONALITY AND THE SCIENCE OF MEMORY by Ian Hacking Princeton, £19.95, pp. 336 H ow could I have done that? Everyone has asked......

Coleridge On Hampstead Heath

In Valletta honey-coloured softstone churches powdered the air at noon While sun kissed flies and slept in ditches, Gilded the sea's back, struck gold samphires into light.......