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Pedigree<\/em> by Georges Simenon <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was born in the dark and in the rain and I got away.  The crimes I write about are the crimes I would have committed if I had not got away\u201d.  In this celebrated phrase – from an interview with the New Yorker<\/em> – the novelist Georges Simenon, creator of Inspector Maigret, dramatised his own life with a characteristic mixture of self-congratulation and false modesty.  But Simenon was not just shooting a line.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Journey to the end of the night<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A French doctor lived a life of extraordinary deceit for almost 20 years and then killed his parents, his wife and children<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Adversary: a true story of murder and deception<\/em><\/strong> by Emmanuel Carrere (translated by Linda Coverdal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewed in the New Statesman<\/em> by Patrick Marnham on 29 January 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Death in Venice – 2009<\/em> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

VENICE IN AUGUST.  The coaches are stacking up by the multi-storey parks on Piazzale Roma; the cut-price flights are rolling into Marco Polo; the cruise ships heave in and out, rounding the bell tower of San Giorgio Maggiore<\/em>, reducing a former imperial capital to the scale of Toy Town. With the annual rate of visitors running at 20 million, the daily tourist total in August must approach 100,000 – while the resident population halves to about 30,000.  This is the month to avoid.  The police have to impose a one-way pedestrian traffic system over the Rialto Bridge.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Margician of Lamarque<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

An Interview with Eric Boissenot, <\/strong>oenologist of the Medoc and advisor to Latour, Mouton Rothschild, L\u00e9oville-Barton, Chateau Talbot and Chateau Palmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Masque of Africa<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Glimpses of African Belief <\/em>by VS Naipaul <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The account of one man\u2019s journey\u2026 personal themes include the love of helpless animals, the loathing of garbage and exasperation with the constant demands for more money.\u00a0\u00a0But for most of the narrative VS Naipaul is on good behaviour.\u00a0\u00a0He wants to give irrationality a fair chance, in place of mockery he wants to understand.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Royal Society of Literature<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How the leader of a Twitter mob became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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