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An Abstract Debate

Carole Angier HOMECOMING by Bernhard Schlink Weidenfeld, £14.99, pp. 272, ISBN 9780375420917 ✆ £11.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 B ernhard Schlink’s The Reader was one of......

The King Of Peace

Philip Mansel L ION OF J ORDAN : T HE L IFE OF K ING H USSEIN IN W AR AND P EACE by Avi Shlaim Allen Lane, £30, pp. 720, ISBN 9780713997774 ✆ £24 (plus 2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655......