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Making The Surgeon Laugh

Hugh Massingberd N EVER H AVE YOUR D OG STUFFED by Alan Alda Hutchinson, £17.99, pp. 224, ISBN 0091796520 ✆ £14.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 O ne of life’s longed-for......

Up Against It Down Under

Charlotte Moore T HE S ECRET R IVER by Kate Grenville Canongate, £12.99, pp. 334, ISBN 1841956821 ✆ £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 W illiam Thornhill, convict, is......