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How Calm Was The Voice Of Reason?

Philip Hensher GEORGE ORWELL by Gordon Bowker Little, Brown, £20, pp. 512, ISBN 0316861154 ORWELL: THE LIFE by D. J. Taylor Chatto, 120, pp. 448, ISBN 0701169192 Q rwell's world......

A Rare Touch With Tigers

Kate Hubbard THE FINAL CONFESSIONS OF MABEL STARK by Robert Hough Atlantic, £12.99, pp. 430, ISBN 184354152 A photograph at the front of Robert Hough's first novel shows a young......