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A Phoenix Rising From European Ashes

A. N. Wilson THE ORCHARDS OF SYON by Geoffrey Hill Penguin, £9.99, pp. 72 ISBN 0141009918 I t is impossible in a short space to convey not merely how good, but how important......

Grimly Comic Menace

Sam Phipps PORNO by Irvine Welsh Cape, 170, pp. 484, ISBN 02246181X P omo is billed as 'the sequel to Trainspotting', which immediately is a worrying sign, like the blow-up doll......