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Murder

David Hughes Chronicles of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Cape. £5.95) ("Nile hundred pages of quality make this V a fiction that reverbrates far beyond its modest......

Bookerabile?

Francis King An Ice Cream War William Boyd (Hamish Hamilton £7.95) rrhis second novel by William Boyd con- 1 founds but does not disappoint the ex- pectations raised by his......