CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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Man on Edge by Humphrey Hawksley
Flaccid fiction mars atmospheric elan of stock-in-trade spy thriller
PLACE MAN: Humphrey Hawksley
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
SINCE leaving his job as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, Humphrey Hawksley has put his accumulated knowledge to good use in writing some reasonably insightful accounts of the negative globalised impact of Western liberal democracy.
By contrast, his fictional output is unlikely to cause his ex-bosses at the Establishment broadcaster much concern.
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