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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier . . .

John de Falbe ANIL'S GHOST by Michael Ondaatje Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 311 A iil is a forensic anthropologist, educated in America, who is sent by an international human rights......

Wild And Whirling Words

Philip Hensher SHAKESPEARE'S LANGUAGE by Frank Kermode Allen Lane, £20, pp. 320 S hakespeare's language isn't, as it turns out, really the subject of this book. Plenty of......