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A Highly Amusing Shambles

Francis King BARNEY'S VERSION by Mordecai Richter Chatto, £16.99, pp. 424 T he Canadian, Jewish narrator of this fictional memoir, Barney Carnofsky, writing when he is beginning......

Not A Person To Murder

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