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Books

Great expectations disappointed Philip Hensher JACK MAGGS by Peter Carey Faber, £15.99, pp. 328 J ack Maggs is something of a disappoint- ment, but the reader's disappointment......

The Second Coming

Patrick Skene Catling THE MIRACLE STRAIN by Michael Cordy Bantam, £9.99, pp. 364 R oald Dahl wrote a short story called `The Great Automatic Grammatizator' about an electronic......