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The Redneck Riviera

Patrick Skene Catling LOST MAN'S RIVER by Peter Matthiessen Harvill, £16.99, pp. 539 P eter Matthiessen is a distinguished American septuagenarian literary ecologist, a lot......

Mr Happy And Mr Bitter

Katie Grant THE GOOD TIMES by James Kelman Secker, £14.99, pp. 246 I t was the management consultants McKinseys, William Hague's erstwhile employers, who in 1985 concluded that......