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The Grim Face Of Defeat

Patrick Marnham S UITE F RANÇAISE by Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith Chatto, £16.99, pp. 403, ISBN 0701178965 ✆ £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 W hen Suite......

Double, Double, Toil And Trouble

Stephen Abell L UDMILA ’ S B ROKEN E NGLISH by D. B. C. Pierre Faber, £12.99, pp. 318, ISBN 0571215181 ✆ £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 T he good news about this novel is......