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Camping At A High Altitude

Katie Grant SMILE PLEASE by Jonathan Keates Chatto, £15.99, pp. 330 A a novel written by a straight man, Smile Please would constitute a feat of extraordinarily acute......

Loads Of Fun But Not A Barrel Of Laughs

Hugh Massingberd MARRYING THE MISTRESS by Joanna Trollope Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 311 'm one of those rare chaps,' a genial Staffordshire landowner once told me, 'who can boast......