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...They have a far more sophisticated understanding of the permeability of architecture — the fire escapes, the service ducts, the vaults and the sewers....
...Summer’s Crown: The Story of Cricket’s County Championship, by Stephen Chalke, Fairfield Books, RRP£20 A wonderfully researched, very well written and lovingly produced history of the county championship...
...It centres on the Madigan family and their house, near an unnamed town, on the coastline of County Clare....
...This philosopher does a better job and with more humour....
...Toby’s Room , by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 Barker, who made the first world war her domain with the Regeneration trilogy, returns to it here....
...Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India By William Dalrymple Bloomsbury, £20 These nine tales of lives lived in the service of religion are sometimes atrociously sad (that of an HIV-positive...
...To put that in perspective, Mr Blair’s lead over William Hague in 2001 was 39 per cent....
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