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No Shrinking Flower

Fiona Maddocks VIOLET by Jessica Douglas-Home Harvill, £20.00, pp. 352 H andsome, clever and rich, and a good many other things besides, Violet Gordon Woodhouse sounds as......

More Shocker Than Thriller

Nick Dent THE PSALM KILLER by Chris Petit Macmillan, 116.99, pp. 544 T he first chapter of The Psalm Killer gives us some lively sex in a car between a terrorist hit-man and his......

Getting The Right Exposure

Andrew Barrow A HAND AT THE SHUTTER by Francis King Constable, £15.99, pp. 191 T he title of this slim volume of short stories was inspired by a stray remark made by V. S.......