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Putting It All In

Sebastian Smee MIDDLESEX by Jeffrey Eugenides Bloomsbuty, £16.99, pp. 529, ISBN 0747560234 N ot for nothing has Jeffrey Eugenides, on the strength of just one novel published......

Driving On A Dark Night

Thomas Hodgkinson DEAD AIR by kin Banks Little Brown, £16.99, pp. 408, ISBN 0316860549 K en Nott is the most annoying man in England. It's his job (he's a shock jock, a......

The Orwell Of Notting Hill

Simon Courtauld SUBJECTS OF THE QUEEN by Roy Kerridge Duckworth, £16, pp. 192, ISBN 0715630202 R oy Kerridge is conservative in attitude, he loves the works of Kipling and he......