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Always, Everywhere, Or Else Not

Nigel Spivey A HISTORY OF GOD by Karen Armstrong Heinemann, £16.99, pp. 511 T his is not an entirely futile book. Though God does not indulge what mortals term as 'wisdom' (as......

Uneasy Lies The Head

Michael McCrum DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR by John Rae HarperCollins, £16.99, pp. 224 N o more honest and revealing a self- portrait of a non-fictional headmaster has ever been......

The Grass Is Singing To A Different Tune

Penelope Fitzgerald SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT by Ben Okri Cape, £14.99, pp. 297 B en Okri is a Midnight's Child, having been born in 1960, the year of Nigeria's independence. He......