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A Happy Surprise

Tom Hiney ENGLISH WEATHER by Neil Ferguson Gollancz Originals, £9.99, pp. 319 S tranded at a railway station, few people in their right mind would head for the Con- temporary......

The Boys' Own Papers

Patrick Skene Catling THE BOYS: TRIUMPH THROUGH ADVERSITY by Martin Gilbert Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 511 T his is an important book. There was a Holocaust. Fewer than 100,000 Jews......