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Rape, Murder, Birth

Nicholas Harman COMING OF AGE WITH ELEPHANTS by Joyce Poole Hodder, £16.99, pp. 270 F or years Joyce Poole seems to have thought of herself pretty much as an honorary elephant,......

Splendidly Rough Justice

Michael Bywater POPCORN by Ben Elton Simon & Schuster, £1 2.99, pp. 298 en, ripe? Narp mean, yeah? Wotcher go'q? Beneath the blokey crop, the laddish smirk, the right-on......