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Already Heard But Not Seen

Francis King THE LOVE SONGS OF NATHAN J. SWIRSKY by Christopher Hope Macmillan, £13.99, pp. 189 O ther writers had done it before him, hut Garrison Keillor was the first to make......

Karl's Strange Engine

Clive James REBECCA'S VEST by Karl Miller Hamish Hamilton, .£14.99, pp. 186 A s compact and nutritious as a field ration, this deceptively slight autobiography is a classic from......

Bad Timing

After his wife died he grieved in a darkened room, loving her at last. Connie Bensley......