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One That Got Away Cressida Connolly The Unredeemed...

John Demos Papermac, £10, pp. 250 O n a freezing morning in February 1704, the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts, was attacked by a band of French and native Indian soldiers from......

Oh Death, Where Is Thy Bite?

Michael Hulse THE CALCUTTA CHROMOSOME by Amitav Ghosh Picador, f15.99, pp. 308 I mmortality has not figured very prominently in literature since Swift's Struldbrugs, and Amitav......

Large, If Invisible, Earnings

John Oaksey QUEST FOR GREATNESS: A CELEBRATION OF LAMMTARRA AND THE RACING SEASON by Laura Thompson Michael Joseph, £20, pp. 224 L aura Thompson was presumably as flummoxed as......