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A Shortage Of Wine And Olives

Robert Stewart T HE M IDDLE S EA by John Julius Norwich Chatto, £25, pp. 667, ISBN 0701176083 ✆ £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 W ar and religion are the enduring themes of......

Going Under And Coming Up

Digby Durrant W HITE M AN F ALLING by Mike Stocks Alma Books, £12.99, pp. 285, ISBN 1846880092 ✆ £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 I t’s understandable that a man fails to......