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No, But I'll Watch The Programme

Barbara Trapido NOT YET HOME by Justin Cartright Fourth Estate, £12.99, pp. 191 J ustin Cartright is an exciting novelist. His imagination sparks off some of the most vital......

The Winning Ways Of The Tories Bruce Anderson

A HISTORY OF CONSERVATIVE POLITICS, 1900-1996 by John Charmley Macmillan, £16.99, pp. 296 T he Tory Party is an enduring paradox. By opposing the Great Reform Bill, it put......

Where There's A Will

Charlotte Moore THE GUEST by Charlotte Cory Faber, £15.99, pp. 224 T he guest' of the title is a corpse, a nameless visitor found dead in his hotel room in Knibden, an English......