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Dr Livingstone becomes a dead weight : Out of Darkness, Shining Light, by Petina Gappah

The problems of ferrying the explorer’s body to the East African coast, en route to Britain, is the subject of Gappah’s quirky new novel

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  • Out of Darkness, Shining Light

    Out of Darkness, Shining Light

    Faber, pp. 424, £20

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