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Recent First Novels

Lucy Beresford I selected Overnight to Innsbruck by Denyse Woods (Sitric Books, £9.99, pp. 255, ISBN 1903305063) by chance from the reviewing shelf and discovered a real treat......

The Not So Beautiful Game

Ian Buruma AJAX, THE DUTCH, THE WAR: FOOTBALL IN EUROPE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Simon Kuper Orion, £14.99, pp. 244, ISBN 0752851497 T he main fixture of the Dutch......