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A Reluctant, Well-fed Agent

Sam Phipps KINGDOM OF SHADOWS by Alan Furst Gollancz, .£16.99, pp. 274 A lan Furst has won high praise for his sequence of spy thrillers set in Europe during the 1930s and the......

Love In A Violent Climate

Justin Marozzi THE RIGHTS OF DESIRE by Andre Brink Secker, £15.99, pp. 306 P ity the white liberals of South Africa. How must they feel now? All those years campaigning against......