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The photographs on our front cover this month are taken from Round Buildings, Square Buildings & Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip Isaacson. Hardback (0 86203 447 7) and paperback (0 86203 468 X) are published by Julia MacRae.
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This absorbing book shows the author at the height of her powers, weaving elements together with a deftness which defies their disparate and sometimes unlikely nature. Roger and his family spend the summer in a wonderful sounding but isolated chateau. There's something of the fairy tale at first: the castle, the beautiful daughter who tends the goats and the brutish orge-like father. But, with incest at its heart, the novel anchors transmutation and fantasy in a rich psychological reality.
