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Ugly Ribbon Development

Robert Powell-Jones HOW TO MURDER A MAN by Carlo Gebler Little, Brown, £16.99, pp. 373 T his powerful and sombre novel is set in Ireland in the 1850s in a desolate tract of......

Hot Writing In A Cold Climate

Tony Gould EMPIRE WINDRUSH edited by Oneyekachi Wambu Gollancz, £10.99, pp. 320 T he arrival of SS Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks in 1948 heralded the beginning of a new era......