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Big Nose Goes East

Mark Swallow RIVER TOWN by Peter Hessler John Murray, £18.99, pp, 402, ISBN0060195444 W hen I taught in a quite remote Chinese town four things got me down: the persistent......

Creme De La Crème

A. N. Wilson FAIRNESS by Ferdinand Mount Chatto, £16.99, pp. 306, ISBN 0701169753 R eviewers are not supposed to give away the plot of crime stories, but I forget what the form......