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The River Of No Return
David Profumo THE DAY OF CREATION by J.G. Ballard Gollancz, £10.95 T he two most likely questions about the latest Ballard novel will be: is it similar to his supremely......
The New Curiosity Shop
Harriet Waugh THE HEARTS AND LIVES OF MEN by Fay Weldon Heinemann, £10.95 THE RULES OF LIFE by Fay Weldon Hutchinson, £7.95 L ike most of Dickens's novels The Hearts and Lives......