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A Thin Plot In A Fat Sandwich

Francis King LONDON FIELDS by Martin Amis Cape, £12.95, pp. 470 M y fellow contributor Nigel Burke has never, as far as I recall, included the word 'many-layered', at present so......

Lonely In A Crowd

Norman Stone THE TORCH TN MY EAR by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel Deutsch, £13,95, pp.372 V ienna is the loneliest and most de- pressing city in Europe. Those......