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...In this Vietnam-era story, a California family is imploded first by private tragedy, then by the war itself. Yet the author is a Brit writing about a time before she was born. You’d never know it....
...… J, by Howard Jacobson, Jonathan Cape, RRP£18.99/ Hogarth, RRP$25 Set in a near-future dystopia in which citizens have been brainwashed to forget a horrific pogrom co-ordinated through social networking...
...Confirmation that he remains a major American writer....
...The American commander was a gun-boat diplomat whose show of force was supposed to persuade Japan to open up, much like other Asian nations had done, to free trade and the hated “unequal treaties”....
...Labour the party of the first ever winter allowance, the first ever free TV licenses, the first ever national system for free local bus travel and the first ever Pension Credit helping two million pensioners...
...The Washington Post has the story of a Pakistani-American citizen in custody in the US, who is assisting with enquiries into the July 7th London bombings....
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