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Sick Heart River

Tom Stacey STANLEY: T HE I MPOSSIBLE L IFE OF A FRICA ’ S G REATEST E XPLORER by Tim Jeal Faber, £25, pp. 545, ISBN 9780571221028 L ove can drive a man to his grandeur. H. M.......

Much Jostling In The Street

Giles Waterfield B URNING B RIGHT by Tracy Chevalier HarperCollins, £15.99, pp. 390, ISBN 9780007178353 ✆ £12.79 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 E arly in 1792 the simple......

Guilt And Defiance

P. J. Kavanagh T HAT N EUTRAL I SLAND by Clair Wills Faber, £25, pp. 502, ISBN 9780571221059 I t will be news to nobody that England (or ‘the Crown’) and Ireland had been in a......