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Grimly Comic Menace

Sam Phipps PORNO by Irvine Welsh Cape, 170, pp. 484, ISBN 02246181X P omo is billed as 'the sequel to Trainspotting', which immediately is a worrying sign, like the blow-up doll......

The Master Of Reticence And Timelessness

Christopher Woodward ON A GRANDER SCALE: THE OUTSTANDING CAREER OF CHRISTOPHER WREN by Lisa Jardine HarperCoffins. £25, pp. 624, ISBN 007107757 J ardine's book begins inside the......