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Books

Mission brave but impossible Philip Hensher MODERN TIMES, MODERN PLACES by Peter Conrad Thames & Hudson, 124.95, pp. 752 ti ter Conrad has always been someone who enrages the......

Mapping A Prefab Paradise

Nicholas Waywell THE RUM DIARY by Hunter S. Thompson Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 204 h is is a timely reissue of Hunter S. Thompson's first novel, written in the late Fifties at the......