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Frailty Of The Flesh

Anita Brookner LOVE UNKNOWN by A. N. Wilson Hamish Hamilton, f9.95 I t has become something of a clich8 to read in publishers' catalogues or the pages of the Bookseller the......

The Poet Diplomat

David Pryce-Jones SELECTED POEMS II by Charles Johnston Published for Charles Johnston by the Bodley Head, £4.50 S it Charles Johnston wrote poems that anyone can readily......

Potent Home Brew

Victoria Glendinning TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: COLLECTED STORIES Secker & Warburg, £15 G ore Vidal's introduction to this col- lection is indulgent and paradoxical (Ten- nessee......