Martin Amis is one of the literary world's most celebrated and controversial authors ("Money: A Suicide Note, " "London Fields" and his latest, "The Pregnant Widow"), with contentious views on everything from religion to beauty and politics.

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London Fields, in Hackney, is next.

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Luke Harwood, 18, from Havering, east London, was found by police on Monday near Broadmead Playing Fields in Woodford Green, north-east London.

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From the Burma Road to the Arctic convoys, the killing fields of Kursk and the London Blitz, their voices are heard.

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In 1990 Melissa Halstead, an American model turned photographer, disappeared in Amsterdam and 10 years later Paula Fields went missing from the London streets where she worked as a prostitute.

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Miss Halstead's torso was found in a Rotterdam canal in 1990, while 31-year-old Ms Fields' remains were found in London's Regent's Canal in 2001.

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The memorial service took place at St Martin-in-the-Fields, near Trafalgar Square in central London.

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The dismembered and headless body of Ms Fields was found in body bags in London's Regent's Canal in 2001.

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Headquartered in London, Herbert Smith is involved in a wide variety of fields particularly in dispute resolution and corporate law, its main clients are national and multinational businesses.

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He denies killing Melissa Halstead, 33, and Paula Fields, 31, whose deaths took place 10 years apart and their bodies disposed of in London and the Netherlands.

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