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Working With Ideas, Not Stories

Olivia Glazebrook THE FACTS BEHIND THE HELSINKI ROCCAMATIOS by Vann Martel Canongate, £9.99, pp. 239, ISBN 1841955361 T his collection was originally published by Faber in 1993,......

Both The First And The Last Word

Toby Young BLOCKBUSTER: HOW HOLLYWOOD LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE SUMMER by Tom Shone Simon & Schuster, £18.99, pp. 392, ISBN 0743239903 ti16.99 (plus /2.25 p&p) 0870......

Big Daddy Of Europe?

Eric Christiansen CHARLEGMAGNE: FATHER OF A CONTINENT by Alessandro Barbero, translated by Alan Cameron University of California Press, £1 8.95, pp. 426, ISBN 0520239431 1 t was......