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Tribes of clutter
A new study of contemporary Londoners' possessions and the values they attach to them reveals a shift of allegiance away from wider society and towards the individual household
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Orgies and ecstasy
Swinging: the Games Your Neighbours Play
Mark Brendon
The Friday Project Ltd, 320pp, £12.99
Eastern approaches
The China Lover
Ian Buruma
Atlantic Books, 320pp, £15.99
State of the Nation
Carla Power on images of contemporary life in the United States
The truth hurts
The Beacon
Susan Hill
Chatto & Windus, 160pp, £10
If the suit fits . . .
Mister Roberts
Alexei Sayle
Sceptre, 192pp, £12.99
Away from San José
The Armies
Evelio Rosero
Quercus, 214pp, £14.99
Never trust a journalist
Nothing to Fear
Matthew d’Ancona
Hodder & Stoughton, 272pp, £16.99
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Old Labour's heroic age
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