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A Serious Case Of Rising Damp

Stephen Abell THE FLOOD by Maggie Gee Saqi, £12.99, pp. 341, ISBN 08635631555 1 n this, her ninth novel, Maggie Gee has determinedly sought — like God in the beginning — to make......

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Jonathan Keates DICK TURPIN: THE MYTH OF THE ENGLISH HIGHWAYMAN by James Sharpe Profile, £15.99, pp. 258, ISBN 1861972989 C rime is a species of performance art. Acts of murder,......