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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The Violence of Austerity, edited by Vickie Cooper and David Whyte (Pluto Press £16.99)
THERE seems to be a minor economic boom at the moment of books written by left-wing writers about austerity.
And there has never been as much information about what is happening from blogs, articles in newspapers or films such as I, Daniel Blake.
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