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The Biggest Bang In The World

Justin Marozzi KRAKATOA: THE DAY THE WORLD EXPLODED, AUGUST 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester Viking, .06.99, pp. 408, ISBN 0066212855 H ow irritating, I thought after completing......

All Over The Place

Sebastian Smee LOOT by Nadine Gordimer Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 240, ISBN 07747564973 N adine Gordimer's lazily allusive and unkempt prose style makes most of the stories in her......