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The Lure Of Paris

Philip Mansel A WOMAN, A MAN AND TWO KINGDOMS by Francis Steegmuller Secker & Warburg, £17.99, pp.279 P aris in the 18th century is the hero (heroine?) of this book. It was the......

Hitch-hiker

Mid-forties, smart overnight bag, Collar with a touch of blood on it, Face I don't really look at. His payment is to relax at My driving, cuss the road-up cones, Reach with......

What Did You

do in the sex war, Daddy? Anne Chisholm THE STORK CLUB by Maureen Freely Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp.311 S elf-deprecating, rueful, comic writing has been a special talent of......