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Focus

P. J. Kavanagh Ivor Gurney: War Letters Ed. R. K. R. Thornton (Carcanet £12) I n the past it has been maddening, the number of people who patronised Ivor Gurney (the few who had......

Good Thriller

Richard West Red Square Edward Topol and Fridrikh Neznansky (Quartet Books £8.95) A couple of years ago a thriller appeared kr - kcalled Gorky Park, in which the Moscow police......