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The Man

who can't explode Miranda France MR PHILLIPS by John. Lanchester Faber, £16.99, pp. 247 T his follow-up to John Lanchester's much-garlanded The Debt to Pleasure charts one day......

The Wrong Side Of The Curtain

Sam Phipps MILA AND MERVUSYA: A RUSSIAN WEDDING by Mervyn Matthews Seren, £10.95, pp. 214 he catalogue of suffering under the Soviet regime is so full and varied it some- times......