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Fight The Bad Fight

Patrick Skene Catling THE PUGILIST AT REST by Thom Jones Faber, £14.99, pp. 230 T estosterone gushes abundantly through these short stories about death in war, deep-sea diving......

The Unbearable Brightness Of Being Clever

Adam Zamoyski THE GLANCE OF COUNTESS HAHN-HAHN by Peter Esterhazy Weidenfeld, £14.95, pp. 246 P eter Esterhazy does not like the concept of 'Central Europe', which he sees as a......