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Sledgehammer To Crack A Nut

Jonathan Mantle JEFFREY ARCHER: STRANGER THAN FICTION by Michael Crick Hamish Hamilton, £17.50, pp. 456 T his is a strange book, but then, as its subtitle acknowledges, lives do......

Not Just An Irksome Swede

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