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Single Girl Blues

Olivia Glazebrook SHOPGIRL by Steve Martin Gollancz, £9.99, pp. 130 S teve Martin, the white-haired comic genius who made us clutch our sides in such cinematic gems as The Jerk,......

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Robert Macfarlane A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROW by Jonathan Margolis Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 276 F ancy a flutter on the 12.30 at Dogger? When Victorian futurologists tried to......

No Heart Failure Here

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