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The Power Of The Workplace

Nicholas Fearn SHIFTS by Adam Thorpe Cape, £14.99, pp. 239 W hen today's graduates enter the so- called 'real world', the first difference they notice is the divergence of their......

A Hero Suffering Without An Audience

Benjamin Yarde-Buller THE RETURN AND OTHER STORIES by Andrey Platonov Harvill, £9.99, pp. 215 F or a number of reasons, none of them relating to the quality of his writing,......

A Selection Of Recent Paperbacks

Fiction: The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie, Vintage, £6.99 The Tin Can Tree, Celestial Navigation and Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler, Vintage, 6.99 each Home......