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...John le Carré took months to construct the opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)....
...Flood of Fire, by Amitav Ghosh, John Murray, RRP£20 The first two books in Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy were widely acclaimed; the third instalment does not disappoint....
...Preparation for the Next Life, by Atticus Lish, Oneworld, RRP£14.99/Tyrant, RRP$15 A traumatised Iraq veteran and a fugitive Chinese immigrant find love against the odds in a gritty New York neighbourhood...
...It was in a spirit of irony and disappointment that John Carey called his recent biography William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies....
...As a result, pared-down prose of the sort editor Gordon Lish would later encourage in Raymond Carver became our default “realism”....
...John Gapper: BP is drilling itself into deep water Once upon a time, BP stood for plain British Petroleum. Under John Browne, its former chief executive, it was Beyond Petroleum....
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