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Best of 2018: Fiction
by PAUL SIMON

THE SUBJECT of Marc Mulholland's The Murderer of Warren Street (Hutchinson) is the 19th century proto-socialist Emmanuel Barthelemy and, while the book is a work of non-fiction, it's as fast-paced and eventful as any novel.

 

Iron man: Glen James Brown (Pic: Parthian Books)
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