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The Red Smoke Screen Ronald Mutebi The Ambiguities Of Power

by Mark Curtis Zed Books, £14.95, pp. 250 'Britain bears considerable responsi- bility for many of the horrors which have afflicted people in the Third World throughout the......

Back To The Old Country

Francis King DOWN BY THE RIVER by Edna O'Brien Weidenfeld, £15.99, pp. 265 I n this new novel, clearly based on a much publicised real-life case, Edna O'Brien tells the story of......