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A King One Hates To Love

James Delingpole THE GREEN MILE by Stephen King Orion, f10.99, pp. 465 tephen King is by a long chalk the world's most successful novelist. In the last 25 years his books have......

The Tick Of A Different Clock

Helen Osborne ANOTHER WORLD by Pat Barker Viking, L16.99, pp. 277 T he opening of Pat Barker's marvellous, merciless new novel is straight out of a Ridley Scott movie. A man......

When Absolute Power Improves Absolutely?

Allan Massie AUGUSTUS by Pat Southern Routledge, £25, pp. 312 W hen Caesar was murdered in 44 BC, young Gaius Octavius Thurinus, his great- nephew by marriage and designated......