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Going Through The Motions

Gilbert Adair JAMES BOND: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY by John Pearson Century, £18.99, pp. 339, ISBN 9781846051142 £15.19 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 1 f book reviews in The......

Not The Place It Used To Be

Paul Bew LUCK AND THE IRISH: A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHANGE, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster Penguin, £20, pp.240. ISBN 9780713997835© £16 (plus 2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Roy Foster's new......

The Cure

(After Yannis Ritsos) Although the fever had left him months before, he kept to his bed: the invalid, his room a swelter of sweat and booze and that meaty smell from the hide......