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By Martin Rowson

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This is the first novel by the political cartoonist Martin Rowson, in which he demonstrates once again (after his Tristram Shandy and The Wasteland) that he is a master of the rewrite. In this book, however, the rewrite he has undertaken is particularly ambitious: the whole of human history, from Lucy the Hominid (aka Eve) who really gets down to it with the snake in the Garden of Eden (or does she?), to a scary, strange future in space, via the Starbucks Goldman Sachs Time Portal (a kind of failing, Millennium- Dome style affair that transports people from 21st-century Kent to "time that had already …