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Taste, Tact and Racism

Ian Hamilton

  • Assassination of a Princess by Ahmad Ata
  • Diana: A Princess Killed by Love by Ilham Sharshar
  • Who Killed Diana? by Muhammad Ragab
  • Harrods: A Place in Knightsbridge by Tim Dale

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Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels - and on football - to the LRB. He died on 27 December 2001.

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