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A Nasty Old Person From Persia

Philip Hensher PERSIA IN THE GREAT GAME by Anthony Wynn John Murray, £25, pp. 346, ISBN 0719564077 I have to register a strong complaint about the misleading and opportunistic......

Drifting Out Of Court

Gabriele Annan JUDGE SAVAGE by Tim Parks Secker, £16.99, pp. 442, ISBN 043620598X J udge Savage is a dashing mixture of thriller, social comedy and dysfunctional family saga.......

Why Did She Do It?

Sebastian Shakespeare THE LIGHT OF DAY by Graham Swift Hamish Hamilton, £16.99, pp. 243, ISBN 0241142040 W e have had to wait seven years for Graham Swift's latest novel. Was it......