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From Negative To Positive

Piers Paul Read THE SOCIETY OF OTHERS by William Nicholson Doubleday, £12.99, pp. 224, ISBN 0385606826 T he late J. G. Farrell, author of Troubles and The Siege of Krishnapur,......

Behaving Badly Abroad

Jonathan Sumption THE FIRST CRUSADE: A NEW HISTORY by Thomas Asbridge Simon & Schuster, £20, pp. 408, ISBN0743220838 T he First Crusade is one of the great historical......

It's Not So Bad

'You are your job,' said a friend to me. I stopped and pondered what he'd said. 'Am I really morning meetings and cups of tea, A few long lunches and then I'm dead?' 'If not,......