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Collor Cruise O'Brien N or th of South: An African Journey Shiva Naipaul (Deutsch £6.50) This is an account of a journey in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The writer, unlike mos t......

Ring-chat

Benny Green Shadow Box George Plimpton (Deutsch £6.95) It is not easy to write well about sport. Many men have tried it and very very few have succeeded, Hazlitt in the Regency,......

Odds On

John Graham The Encyclopaedia of Gambling Peter Arnold (Collins £6.95) if y o u go into the average bookshop and manage to fight your way past the shelves groaning with cookery,......