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Sex, Please, We're British

Robert Edric POLITICS by Adam Thirlwell Cape, £12.99, pp. 279, ISBN 0224071041 A ppropriately for a book entitled Politics, Adam Thirlwell's first novel — another of Granta's......

The Puzzle Of Rebus

Allan Massie A QUESTION OF BLOOD by Ian Rankin Orion, £17.99, pp. 360, ISBN 0752851101 A rguably no Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott has had the commercial and critical......