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Sermons In Stones

Christopher Bray SHEAR A novel about an adulterous English geologist doesn't sound much like a sizzler, but just try putting Tim Parks's Shear down. I would have read it at a......

Why Can't They Be More Like Us?

Mark Archer THE PURSUIT OF REASON: THE ECONOMIST 1843-1993 by Ruth Dudley Edwards Hamish Hamilton, £30, pp. 1020 F or 150 years the Economist has shaken its head at the......