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John Fowles dead

News via the Beeb of the death at 79 of the great John Fowles.

Most people seem only to be able to name "The French Lieutenant's Woman", and even that thanks only to the movie.

But he'd delivered other goodies, among them the magisterial "Magus", "Daniel Martin" and - years ago - "The Collector", famed for being turned into a movie introducing delectable English Rose Samantha Eggar and also featuring delectable cockney, the young Terence Stamp.