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Murder To No Purpose

Alan Campbell ASSASSINATION by Miles Hudson Sutton, £19.99, pp. 256 T his is an interesting and stimulating book by an author whose earlier works have been concerned largely......

The Gardener Who Dug Deep

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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......