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...I have always held that Ikea products are easy to put together and usually include the tools you need, frequently just an Allen key. Not on this occasion....
...The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell, translated by Laurie Thompson, Harvill Secker, RRP£17.99, 384 pages Twenty years after the appearance of his first book featuring dour Swedish detective Kurt Wallander...
...Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg continues until September 6....
...Coming on the heels of the Madoff fraud, officials are sensitive to the public scrutiny that is likely to accompany Sir Allen’s case. Mr Henning said: “You get one shot at a defendant like this....
...There are a couple of Henning Mankell novels I still want to read, and I will have my third attempt to get into Wolf Hall. I always find a good new Tour de France book when we arrive....
...While investigations into Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50bn fraud and Sir Allen Stanford’s banking empire have dominated the headlines, virtually every week has brought at least one new Ponzi scheme charge...
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