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A Managing Manner

Katie Grant THE LAST TIME THEY MET by Anita Shreve Little, Brown, £10,99, pp. 330, ISBN 0316855960 G osh, I must be mean or warped or just plain horrible, but this unrelieveclly......

Not Half So Bad As Painted

Nicholas Fearn NICCOLO'S SMILE by Maurizio Viroli I.B. Tauris, £18.95, pp. 259, ISBN 0374221871 T he beatific smile captured in Santi di Tito's famous portrait of Niccolo......

A Case Of Black And White

Michael Carlson RIGHT AS RAIN by George Pelecanos Orion, £16.99, £9.99, pp. 298, ISBN 0575071702 W ashington DC is two cities. Obscured within the one, administered by the......