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A Crash Course In Survival

Philip Hensher M IRACLES OF L IFE by J. G. Ballard Fourth Estate, £14.99, pp. 278, ISBN 9780007270729 ✆ £11.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 N o one would be allowed to have J.......

Gas

Seeing the country from a train I’ve grown convinced its gasholders in fact are used to house the spite and gloom of post-industrial towns. Arriving anywhere, I credit them for......