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No Room At The Top

Philip Ziegler FRIENDS AND RIVALS: CROSLAND, JENKINS AND HEALEY by Giles Radice Little, Brown, £20, pp. 376, ISBN 0316855472 I n the years following the second world war, Tony......

A Bleak Kind Of Optimism

Fatema Ahmed THE WHORE'S CHILD by Richard Russo Chatto, £10.99, pp. 225, ISBN 0701173300 A fter several acclaimed novels, including last year's Pulitzer prize-winning Empire......