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The Smoke Of Their Torment Aseendeth

James Simmons HOUSE OF SPLENDID ISOLATION by Edna O'Brien Weidenfeld, £14.99, pp. 216 h e narrator and central character is an old lady, alone and unhappy in a decayed 'big......

Look And Pass On

Andro Linklater CITY LIGHTS: A STREET LIFE by Keith Waterhouse Hodder, £14.99, pp. 218 J oumalists may be good at writing about the world around them — it is, after all, their......