Innocents in Africa by Drury Pifer, Granta, pounds 15.99. A tragic but warm memoir of a South African childhood. Review by Doris Lessing, 7 May.
The New Italians by Charles Richards, Michael Joseph, pounds 17.99. Portrait of la dolce vita by this newspaper's former Rome correspondent. Not reviewed here, but hailed elsewhere as 'stimulating . . . extraordinary.'
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