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Fiction

Rude farceur A . N. Wilson A Good Man in Africa William Boyd (Hamish Hamilton pp. 264, f6:95) Having almost no sense of humour, I have never seen what was wrong with the......

Clerical Japes

Benny Green The Flesh is Weak Andrew Barrow (Hamish Hamilton pp.296, £10.95). The sub-title of Mr Barrow's book is self - explanatory: 'An intimate history of the Church of......