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Food For Plutocrats And The People

Elfreda Pownall G RAND L IVRE DE C UISINE by Alain Ducasse Stewart, Tabori & Chang, £159, pp. 1080, ISBN 2848440007 T HE N EW E NGLISH K ITCHEN by Rose Prince Fourth Estate,......

Murder Made Easy

Robert Stewart T HE A WFUL E ND OF W ILLIAM THE S ILENT : T HE F IRST A SSASSINATION OF A H EAD OF S TATE WITH A HANDGUN by Lisa Jardine HarperCollins, £12.99, pp. 175, ISBN......

A Low Opinion Of Human Nature

Jonathan Mirsky F ORTRESS B ESIEGED by Qian Zhongshu [Ch’ien Chung-shu], translated by Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao Penguin, £18.99, pp. 426, ISBN 02265345316 ✆ £16.99 (plus......