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The Latest And The Worst

Timothy Mo FRAGRANT HARBOUR by John Lanchester Faber, £16.99, pp. 300, ISBN 0576201768 H ong Kong is the elephants' graveyard of novelists, the last resort when they can think......

The Real Sir Humphrey

Jonathan Cecil STRAIGHT FACE by Nigel Hawthorne Hodder, £18.99, pp. 339, ISBN 0340769424 I n 1968 I appeared in my first radio play. It was a fustian historical piece peppered......