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The Intelligentsia Head South
Jonathan Beckman T HE S TANDING P OOL by Adam Thorpe Cape, £16.99, pp. 423, ISBN 9780224079419 ✆ £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 A dam Thorpe set his previous novel,......
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