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The School Of Hard Knocks

Honor Clerk LIFE CLASS by Pat Barker Hamish Hamilton, £16.99, pp. 248, ISBN 9780241142974 © £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 The Slade of the years immediately before the......

Dark Heart Of The Deep South

Ian Thomson END GAMES by Michael Dibdin Faber, £12.99, pp. 335, ISBN 9780571236152 © £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Last March, after an unexpected illness, Michael......