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Novels

Random returns MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH The Ticket That Exploded William Burroughs (Calder and Boyars 42s) Raman's Notebooks Stephen Gilbert (Michael Joseph 25s) New Orleans......

Thirty Years On

JOHN HIGGINS On a hot August day in 1940 I was lying at full stretch, stomach down, in a remote Cornish orchard. It was a good afternoon because the post had brought a batch of......