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Home & Away
One Lark, One Horse
By Michael Hofmann
Faber & Faber 90pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
Green Noise
By Jean Sprackland
Jonathan Cape 52pp £10 order from our bookshop
The Scottish Ambassador
By Robert Crawford
Jonathan Cape 54pp £10 order from our bookshop
One lark, one horse? The epigraph for Michael Hofmann’s new collection is a jest quoted in Carole Angier’s biography of Primo Levi. Goldberg sells pâté – lark pâté. Cohen asks how he can afford to. Goldberg says he adds a bit of horse. ‘How much horse?’ ‘One lark, one horse’ comes the answer.
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