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Stranger Than Fact

John Bayley ELECTRICITY by Victoria Glendinning Hutchinson, £14.99, pp. 250 I n his first published novel, Desperate Remedies, Hardy has a memorable scene in which a young......

To Betray You Must First Belong

Andro Linklater FLAMES IN THE FIELD: THE STORY OF FOUR SOE AGENTS IN OCCUPIED FRANCE by Rita Kramer Michael Joseph, £18.99, pp. 338 T he fall in the reputation of Odette I......

Books

Death had undone so many John Grigg THE DAY THE WAR ENDED by Martin Gilbert HaglerCollins, £20, pp.473 O n the first page of his new book Mar- tin Gilbert gives the staggering......