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Books

Not all plain sailing Philip Hensher PASSAGE TO JUNEAU by Jonathan Raban Picador, £16.99, pp. 435 J onathan Raban's complex and secretive new book, Passage to Juneau, is......

More Froth Than Coffee Helen Osborne

ADRIAN MOLE: THE CAPPUCCINO YEARS by Sue Townsend Penguin, £14.99, pp. 326 T he latest stage of Adrian Mole's trudge on life's pimply treadmill opens on election eve 1997 in the......