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On The Rocks

Tim Parks SIGNALS OF DISTRESS by Jim Crace Viking, £15, pp 247 L 'terary novelists seem obsessed with history these days — Byatt, Ackyoyd, Antis, Phillips, McEwan, Ondaatje, De......

It's Tough In The Middle

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