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The Wickedness Of Papa And Baby

Anthony Daniels HAITI: THE DUVALIERS AND THEIR LEGACY by Elizabeth Abbott Robert Hale, £17.95, pp. 432 H aiti exerts a fascination out of all proportion to its size and......

Exaggerations Rather Than Fantasies

Isabel Colegate THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA by Isabel Allende Hamish Hamilton, £13.99, pp. 250 I sabel Allende's most recent novel — her third — was Eva Luna, which estab- lished......

Mrs Spector At The Feast

William Mount BE MY BABY by Ronnie Spector with Vince Waldron Macmillan, £14.99, pp. 338 R onnie Spector is famous for two things: her brief career as raunchy lead in the......