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The Games People Still Play

Andro Linklater LIFE AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT by Robin Skynner and John Cleese Methuen, £16.99, pp. 413 J ohn. The first thing to say about this book is that it's unreadable.......

The Thinker Who Strangled His Wife

Anthony Daniels O n my 21st birthday, rather more than half a lifetime ago, three friends gave me as a present a black-covered Penguin book with a small red flag on the front,......

Setting A President

Dermot Clinch NO OTHER LIFE by Brian Moore Bloomsbury, f14.99, pp 216 T here's nothing like a good read, and a novel by Brian Moore is almost a guaran- tee of that. No Other......