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Glorifying The Sun And Air

Nigel Spivey THE FABRICATION OF LOUIS XIV by Peter Burke Yale University Press, £19.95, pp. 242 I mage-junkies' — that is how we have all been characterised by Susan Sontag, on......

A Congregation Of Women

Tom Shone LIFE FORCE by Fay Weldon HarperCollins, £14.99, pp.200 I n the middle of one of her characteristi- cally bumptious bear-hugs with the reader in her new novel, Fay......