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A Choice Of First Novels

Tom Fleming American Youth by Phil LaMarche (Sceptre, £12.99, pp. 221) is a sparsely written, penetrating tale of a boy who finds himself in a moral dilemma when he abets the......

Children Of The Night

William Brett AFTER DARK by Haruki Murakami Harvill Secker, £14.99, pp. 208, ISBN 9781846550478 © £11.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 ime moves in its own special way in the......