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Books

Moles and peacocks Philip Hensher THE CHANCELLORS by Roy Jenkins Macmillan, £25, pp. 497 C hancellors of the Exchequer divide neatly into moles and peacocks, number- crunchers......

The Higher The Tower

David V. Barrett WAR IN HEAVEN by David Zindell Voyager, £11.99, pp. 618 A k most people why they read science fiction when they were teenagers, and the answer will probably......