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That's Why The Lady Was Dysfunctional

Patrick Skene Catling WISHING ON TF1E MOON: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BILLIE HOLIDAY by Donald Clarke Viking, £16.99, pp. 468 S ome books, they say, make readers laugh out loud. If......

Telling The Same Old Inside, Somewhat Exaggerated Truth

Anthony Howard GANGLAND: HOW THE FBI BROKE THE MOB by Howard Blum Hutchinson, f16.99, pp. 349 W hat with its most famous director allegedly waltzing inside New York's Plaza......