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Great Expectations Dashed

Philip Hensher CHARLES DICKENS by Jane Smiley Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.99, pp. 214, ISBN 0297607774 0 h dear. This is a book I've been looking forward to all year, and in the......

Dishing The Dirt

David Hughes THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL by Sam Kashner and Jennifer Macnair Little, Broi4n, £20, pp. 380, ISBN 0316847380 R arely do I feel a book too slight to review, yet I......