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The best books of 2024 so far: writers and critics choose their favourite reads
Declan Burke The sequel to his excellent White Riot, Joe Thomas’s Red Menace is a 1980s-set thriller of police corruption in the UK. The best spy novel of the year so far is Oliver Harris’s The Shame Archive, which deals with the consequences of MI5′s …