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...Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford, Faber, RRP£16.99 Spufford, known as a distinguished writer of non-fiction, brings 18th-century New York to life in all its hyperactive infancy....
...Creon (Brindley Sherratt, outstanding) is an army commanding officer, Orontes (Roderick Williams, excellent) an air force squadron leader, while Jason (Jeffrey Francis, stylish but long past his best) sports...
...“It’s counterintuitive,” says Francis Bickmore, Dyer’s editor at Canongate Books, “but with a first novel there is nothing to dissuade a publisher from their optimism – and if publishers weren’t optimistic...
...Andrew Kennedy and Roderick Williams shine as composer and poet, as do Quirjin de Lang’s Count and Sara Fulgoni’s Clairon. Matthew Best is a monotonous La Roche....
...Gi “grew out of the Art Fair in a strange way”, says Francis McKee, director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts and Glasgow International....
...A couple of prints by the Bisson brothers have that lovely colour of unfaded albumen, but have no real business in this company....
...“It becomes frustrating working for the state,” says Dr Roderick Narikungari, who quit after 10 years to join Médicins sans Frontières in Malawi....
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