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No Provincial Laggard

John Martin Robinson I NIGO J ONES AND THE E UROPEAN C LASSICIST TRADITION by Giles Worsley Yale, £40, pp. 220, ISBN 9780300117295 ✆ £32 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 I nigo......

Struggling To Survive The Future

Simon Baker T HE P ESTHOUSE by Jim Crace Picador, £12.99, pp. 309, ISBN 9780330445627 ✆ £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 J im Crace’s latest novel, The Pesthouse , is set......

Manna

Footsore, like the Assyrians of old as ravenous as wolves, we left the hill bright-eyed, invigorated by the cold, clean mountain air of which we’d drunk our fill and slept on......