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How Charm Came Before A Fall

Alan Watkins EDEN by D. R. Thorpe Chatto, £25, pp. 758,ISBN 0701167440 D . R. Thorpe is the Richard Dimbleby of political biography. Like the long departed television......

An Ill Wind

D. J. Taylor SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN by Julie Myerson Cape, 172.99, pp. 328, ISBN 0224063928 F ifteen years ago critics used to complain that far too many lady novelists set......