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A Real-life Detective Story

Montagu Curzon THE ROAD TO UBAR: FINDING THE ATLANTIS OF THE SANDS by Nicholas Clapp Souvenir, £18.99, pp. 272 ands are supposed to contain riddles, if only to compensate for......

The Boy's

own stories Juliet Townsend CAESAR, THE LIFE STORY OF A PANDA LEOPARD and HUSSEIN: AN ENTERTAINMENT by Patrick O'Brian British Library, £50 (limited edition, £125) G oing......

Hell In The Suburbs

Andrew Barrow FORTYSOMETHING by Nigel Williams Viking, £15.99, pp. 403 T his novel, four hundred and some- thing pages long and compiled entirely of diary items, is a massive,......