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Patrick Skene Catling W ITH B ILLIE by Julia Blackburn Cape, £17.99, pp. 354, ISBN 0224075896 ✆ £15.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 H aving obsessively admired Billie......

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Digby Durrant T HE T RIAL OF T RUE L OVE by William Nicholson Doubleday, £12.99, pp. 269, ISBN 0385608705 V £11.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 A writer, John Dearborn, known......