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A Hundred Years Of Solitary

Anthony Howard PROVED INNOCENT by Gerry Conlon Hamish Hamilton, £12.99, pp. 234 STOLEN YEARS by Paul Hill with Ronan Bennett Doubleday, £12.99, pp. 287 T he Prevention of......

A Novel About Ideas

Francis King HOPEFUL MONSTER by Nicholas Mosley Secker & Warburg, £14.95, pp. 551 T his novel, although self-contained, is apparently the last of a herd of jumbos corralled......