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It's Too Damn Hot

Andrew Barrow INFINITE RICHES by Ben Okri Phoenix House, £16.99, pp. 352 B en Okri's Booker Prize sizzler, The Famished Road, and its somewhat less cele- brated sequel somehow......

Days Of Wine And Roses

David Gilmour THE HAPPY SUMMER DAYS by Fulco Weidenfeld, £10.99, pp. 160 P alermo was an improbable resort for the Belle Epoque. The island capital was poor, violent and......