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Depths And Shallows

Charlotte Moore THE PRIVATE PARTS OF WOMEN by Lesley Glaister Bloomsbury, £10.99, pp. 240 ven in my great escape I play it safe. I do it in the English, female way, the little......

Find Out But Don't Believe

John Bayley THE FACULTY OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE by Yury Dombrovsky, translated by Alan Myers Harvill, £15.99, pp. 533 T ime: 1937. Following the death of Kirov, the boss of......