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The French Disconnection

Robbie Millen MY PHANTOM HUSBAND by Marie Darrieussecq Faber, £9.99, pp. 153 I t has not been a glorious century for the French. The Dreyfus Affair, Verdun, the Fall of Paris,......

What Went On In The Closet

John McEwen GLYN PHILPOT by J. G. P. Delaney Ashgate, £39.95, pp. 179 D elaney's previous biography was of the Edwardian painter, Charles Ricketts. Now he has written one of......