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Fathers And Sons

A. N. Wilson Dad William Wharton (Cape pp. 449, £6.95) Jack Tremont is a painter aged 52, who lives in France so as not to be near his tiresome parents in California. But when......

Reassessment

Robert Byron Gavin Stamp The Road to Oxiana Robert Byron, with an introduction by Bruce Chatwin (Picador pp. 288, £2.50) The Road to Oxiana was first published in 1937: now its......