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Comeuppance For Everyone

Andrew Barrow WOMEN IN THE BACKGROUND by Barry Humphries Heinemann, £14.99, pp. 327 his self-mocking and exceedingly funny novel describes the adventures and misfortunes of a......

Memories Are Made Of This

Alan Judd THE FLOWER OF BATTLE by Hugh Cecil Secker, £25, pp. 415 I thought I knew the literature of the Great War reasonably well — at least, who wrote what even if I hadn't......