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The Shattering Of Decorum

Sebastian Smee THE FIT by Philip Hensber Fourth Estate, £15.99, pp. 326, ISBN 0007174810 T he first half of Philip Hensher's new novel does a lot of chugging and clunking into......

Most Sacrilegious Murder

Geoffrey Howe TO KILL A PRIEST by Kevin Ruane Gibson Square Books, £16.99, pp. 386, ISBN 1903933544 N ineteen eighty-five was the year in which I became closely engaged in the......