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Of Cabbages And Kings

Gareth Howell-Jones JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE FLIES by Aldo Buzzi Faber, £9.99, pp. 147 W hen Proust was asked who he would have liked to have been if he had not been Proust,......

Recipe For Disaster?

Main de Botton THE DEBT OF PLEASURE by John Lanchester Picador, £15.99, pp .240 C onventional wisdom has it that a good novel should provide the reader with at least one central......