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Magical Chile And Unhappy Ireland

Harriet Waugh THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS by Isabel Allende Cape, £8.95 THE KILLEEN by Mary Leland Hamish Hamilton, £895 I sabel Allende's exceptionally mature first novel, The......

All That's Golding Does Not Glister

Patrick Skene Catling AN EGYPTIAN JOURNAL by William Golding Faber, £12.95 W illiam Golding has never seemed to underrate his own worth, and there is no reason that he should......