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Collapse Of Stout Party

Simon Boyd REQUIEM FOR A FAMILY BUSINESS by Jonathan Guinness Macmillan, £20, pp. 390 J onathan Guinness sat on the board of the Guinness company from 1961 when he was 31 until......

The Number That Never Stops

Thomas Blaikie THE JOY OF PI by David Blatner Penguin, £12.99, pp. 124 E ven those, like myself, largely befuddled by maths at school will remem- ber that moment of initiation......