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School For Scandal

Philip Hensher N EVER L ET M E G O by Kazuo Ishiguro Faber, £16.99, pp. 272, ISBN 0571224113 ✆ £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 T he time is the late 1990s; the setting a......

The Way Of The World

Jonathan Sumption COLLAPSE: H OW S OCIETIES C HOOSE TO F AIL OR S URVIVE by Jared Diamond Allen Lane/ Penguin, £20, pp. 575, ISBN 0713992867X V £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800......