Simon Baker

The gambler’s daily grind

A review of The Ballad of a Small Player, by Lawrence Osborne. An insight into a gambler’s life of soulless grind

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  • The Ballad of a Small Player

    Lawrence Osborne

    Hogarth, pp. 257

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