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Love And Famine . . .

Claudia FitzHerbert THE SIEGE by Helen Dunmore Viking £16.99, pp. 304, ISBN 0670897183 F ood and sex are old bedfellows in Dunmore's fiction. Now she has dug deeper, taken......

. . . And Famine And Hatred

Kevin Myers THE IRISH FAMINE by Colm Toibin and Diarmaid Ferriter Profile Books, £15, pp. 214. ISBN 1861972490 H ere is a book I opened in trepidation, not because of what I......