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Appearances To The Contrary

Anita Brookner GOING INTO A DARK HOUSE by Jane Gardam Sinclair-Stevenson, £12.99, pp. 183 t is pleasant to report that Jane Gardam's stories are as good as ever, neither......

On The Rocks

Tim Parks SIGNALS OF DISTRESS by Jim Crace Viking, £15, pp 247 L 'terary novelists seem obsessed with history these days — Byatt, Ackyoyd, Antis, Phillips, McEwan, Ondaatje, De......

Disappearances Can Be Deceptive

Francis King IN TENNESSEE COUNTRY by Peter Taylor Chatto & Windus, £14.99, pp. 226 I n essence, this novel is an account of an obsession. As a small boy in the period of the......