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The Dark Side Of The Dragon

Colin Thubron LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI by Nien Cheng Grafton, f12.95 0 ne of the most surprising aspects of China's Cultural Revolution is that so little memorable......

Failing To Understand Women

Anita Brookner THE WOMEN OF GUINEA LANE by Gabriel Fielding Hutchinson, £9.95 abriel Fielding made his debut as a novelist in the 1950s and immediately impressed as a......