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A Mild And Magnificent Eye

Philip Glazebrook BIZARRE BRITAIN: A CALENDAR OF ECCENTRICITY by Roy Kerridge Basil Blackwell, £12.50 T his is a delightful and amusing book of wanderings, packed with......

Mourning Becomes An Electra

Francis King ADVENTURES IN THE ALASKAN SKIN TRADE by John Hawkes Chatto &Windus, £9.95 T he 'skin trade' of the title of John Hawkes's rich, robust, tumultuous new novel is both......

Despite Repeated Warnings

Catalpa trees converse in summer wind. Imagine that they whisper hurricane as leaves display their sequin sides and spin wildly around, portending violent rain. Our oldest......