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Happy Man

Max Egremont E.M. Forster; A Life (vols I & II) P.N. Furbank (Secker & Warburg £6.50 and 2 7.50) The second volume of P. N. Furbank's life of E. M. Forster begins in 1914 with......

Living Space

Ronald Hingley The ivankiad Vladimir Voinovich, translated by David Lapeza (Cape £3.95). Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps Robert Conquest (Macmillan £6.95) The USSR versus Dr......

Wise-cracks

Francis King Madder Music Peter de Vries (Gollancz £3.95) The Throwback Tom Sharpe (Secker and Warburg £4.50) Freud, as Peter de Vries reminds the reader in Madder Music, stated......