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A Time Of Zero Tolerance

Ian Thomson HAVOC by Ronan Bennett Bloomsbuty, .fI6.99, pp. 244, ISBN 0747562490 £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 B orn in 1956, Ronan Bennett is a Belfast writer of great......

From Africa Back To Scotland

Antonia Fraser THE SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB by Alexander McCall Smith Little, Brown, f14.99, pp. 281, ISBN 0316728179 £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 T he publishing world......

Gravity, Mischief And Variety

Frank Kermode ALL THE POEMS by Muriel Spark Carcanet, £9.95, pp. 129, ISBN 185754773X m uriel Spark rightly insists that she is a poet who, as it happens, writes novels, and......