Summary
Francis King In his Skin Lane (Serpent's Tail, L10.99) Neil Bartlett shows eerie skill in his evocation of a small, secret pocket of the City of London devoted to the skin trade way back in 1967. His account of the increasingly desperate obsession of an inarticulate senior employee in a furrier's business with one of his male assistants is masterly in its sinister progression.
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Books of the Year (Part 1 of 2)
Deborah Devonshire
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (Profile Books, £9.99) is small, short, cheap and perfect. It is a gem among the dross, without a wasted word. It conjures a picture so skilfully that whenever I see the Derbyshire County Library van in the village I see Norman and his employer inside discussing their lists of books to borrow.Several bedside copies have already been taken away by my guests. I don't blame them.Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey (Penguin Vik...See the full content of this document
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