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More Shocker Than Thriller

Nick Dent THE PSALM KILLER by Chris Petit Macmillan, 116.99, pp. 544 T he first chapter of The Psalm Killer gives us some lively sex in a car between a terrorist hit-man and his......

A Staggering Success

Vicki Woods YVES SAINT LAURENT by Alice Rawsthorn HarperCollins, £20, pp. 320 F ashion is the cruellest business. Thirty- odd years ago, the young and revolutionary Yves Saint......