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The Not So Beautiful Game

Lloyd Evans T HOSE F EET : A S ENSUAL H ISTORY OF FOOTBALL by David Winner Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 274, ISBN 0747547386 ✆ £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 S ame rubbish,......

The Lower Slopes Of The Magic Mountain

Jonathan Keates A N EW H ISTORY OF G ERMAN LITERATURE editor in chief David E. Wellbery The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, £29.95, pp. 1056, ISBN 0674015037 T he......

The King’s Detective

Alan Judd M: MI5’ S F IRST S PYMASTER by Andrew Cook Tempus, £20, pp. 287, ISBN 0752428969 ✆ £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 I n 1850 when William Melville was born in Sneem,......