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Nick served in the Grenadier Guards and worked as a journalist and literary critic for the Financial Times, before writing full-time. His first novel Where were you at Waterloo?<\/em> is in places as sharp as Waugh and sometimes better – quotes The TLS. His second, Tennis and the Masai<\/em>, considered the funniest book of the year by the Daily Telegraph and serialised on BBC Radio 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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