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Amiable, Angry And Eyebrow-raising

Tom Shone WHAT A CARVE UP! by Jonathan Coe Viking, £15.50, pp. 512 h e novel had been trundling along quite contentedly, somewhere between middling and sub-standard, and then......

Gunpowder, Treason And Plots

Philip Glazebrook ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE by Peter Hopkirk John Murray, £19.99, pp. 418 T he author of this pacy, readable account of Anglo-German conflict in......