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John Graham The Encyclopaedia of Gambling Peter Arnold (Collins £6.95) if y o u go into the average bookshop and manage to fight your way past the shelves groaning with cookery,......

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Paul Ableman The Clique Ferdinand Mount (Ghetto & Windus £4.95) There are five or six novels racing for the winning post across the uneven turf of this book. Home first, by a......