Matthew Mason

The hellraisers of Hoxton: Art, by Peter Carty, reviewed

The pretensions of the Young British Artists are lampooned in Carty’s debut novel – but there’s still something irresistible about the 1990s London it recreates

Peter Carty.
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    Pegasus, pp. 280, £10

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