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Andrew Barrow INFINITE RICHES by Ben Okri Phoenix House, £16.99, pp. 352 B en Okri's Booker Prize sizzler, The Famished Road, and its somewhat less cele- brated sequel somehow......

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BooksoftheWeek THE HUNDRED DAYS by Patrick O'Brian Set in.the days succeeding Napoleon's escape from Elba, on 1 March 1815, this is the nineteenth novel in Patrick O'Brian's......