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Insouciance Of A True Hero

Anita Brookner ANY HUMAN HEART by William Boyd Hamish Hamilton, £12.99, pp. 492, ISBN 024114177X L et it be said at once, this is an excellent picaresque novel, written in a......

A Genius Who Didn't Believe In Much

John Bayley AFTER SHAKESPEARE by John GTOSS OUP, £17.99, pp. 384, ISBN 092142682 W hen I stopped actively teaching a few years ago I had the impression that students and young......