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Hot Water And Cold Revenge

Philip Glazebrook THE STAR'S TENNIS BALLS by Stephen Fry Hutchinson, £16.99, pp. 371 T he opening pages of a novel need to interest the reader in the novel's milieu before he......

The Full Jigsaw Revealed

David Nokes ENLIGHTENMENT: BRITAIN AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN WORLD by Roy Porter Allen Lane, £25, pp. 727 R ay Porter reads in many ways like Daniel Defoe, one of the......