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The Martin Amis novel, London Fields, is one of my favourite books. That is not a universally shared view. It was regarded as a serious contender for ...
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Villa Les Cèdres is a substantial Mediterranean home. A near 190-year-old mansion in the South of France, it is worth north of £300 million. In Engl...
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It’s not an especially topical subject at the moment, what with the Edinburgh Festival being long gone for another year, but over the past year ...
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Published in 1999, Val McDermid’s A Place of Execution (the cover is shown on the home page) received widespread critical acclaim, in the Uni...
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You may have heard that Tiger Woods won a golf tournament yesterday. A sentence that used to be almost as routine as remarking that the sun had come u...
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