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From The Exotic To The Squalid

Lesley Glaister PEERLESS FLATS by Esther Freud Hamish Hamilton, £14.99, pp. 192 I n Peerless Flats Esther Freud gives not just a twist to the usual adolescent tale but a painful......

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Brian Masters THE ASTORS by Derek Wilson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20, pp. 439 M r Wilson has contrived to cover an old tree with fresh leaves. His is not the first book to hurtle......