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A Proustian Hitman

Main de Botton THE KEY OF THE TOWER by Gilbert Adair Secker, £12.99, pp. 176 I t is tempting to argue that Gilbert Adair is a very underrated novelist but it is proba- bly......

The Goalkeeper's Fear Of The Penalty

Ian Ousby ALBERT CAMUS: A LIFE by Olivier Todd, translated by Benjamin Ivry Chatto, £20, pp. 435 N othing, Albert Camus once said, was more absurd than to die in a car crash.......