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The Intelligentsia Head South

Jonathan Beckman T HE S TANDING P OOL by Adam Thorpe Cape, £16.99, pp. 423, ISBN 9780224079419 ✆ £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 A dam Thorpe set his previous novel,......

Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing

Raymond Carr N APOLEON ’ S C URSED W AR by Ronald Fraser Verso, £29.99, pp. 587, ISBN 9781844670826 ✆ £23.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 I n exile on St Helena, Napoleon......