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Childhood Chinese Torture

Teresa Waugh DAUGHTER OF THE RIVER by Hong Ying Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 278 S o removed are we in the West from the kind of deprivation, misery and filth of a Chinese slum, so......

The Gentle Art Of Resurrection

Michael Portillo AN APPETITE FOR POWER: A HISTORY OF THE CONSERVA- TIVE PARTY SINCE 1830 by John Ramsden HarperCollins, 124.99, pp. 512 A party that has been so very successful......