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The Ghosts That Haunt Brick Lane

Zenga Longmore A N A CRE OF B ARREN G ROUND by Jeremy Gavron Scribner, £14.99, pp. 342, ISBN 0743259718 ✆ £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 W hat an extraordinary book. It......

Looking Back Without Anger

Simon Baker GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson Virago, £14.99, pp. 282, ISBN 1844081478 ✆ £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 M arilynne Robinson is an anomaly in modern American......