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The Perils Of Biography

Anita Brookner DECEITS OF TIME by Isabel Colegate Hamish Hamilton, £11.95, pp.216 I t would seem, from certain contempor - ary fictions, that the writing of biography is a......

Heaven Is Not What It Was

Nicholas Lezard HAPPINESS by Theodore Zeldin Collins Harvill, £11.95, pp.320 P art of the problem with this, Theodore Zeldin's first novel, is that the reader has to jettison......