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The Mother Teresa Of The Mind

Michael Church WELCOME TO MY COUNTRY by Lauren Slater Hamish Hamilton, £16, pp. 224 D on't judge a book by its cover, and don't condemn it on the basis of interviews with its......

From The Enjoyable To The Inane

Tom Hiney THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN DETECTIVE STORIES edited by Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert OUP, £17.50, pp. 692 W hen television hijacked the market for American......

In The Grand Tradition

Michael Scott SINGERS OF THE CENTURY by J. B. Steane Duckworth, £25, pp. 271 J ohn Steane's first book, The Grand Tradition, was published some 20 years ago. Since then magazine......