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You Can’t Go Home Again

Daniel Neill M AXIMUM C ITY : B OMBAY L OST AND F OUND by Suketu Mehta Review, £20, pp. 498, ISBN0747221596 ✆ £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 B ombay, the biggest city on the......

There Shone One Woman

Douglas Johnson M ADAME DE S TAËL by Maria Fairweather Constable & Robinson, £25, pp. 522, ISBN 1841198161 ✆ £23 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 I n January 1798 Talleyrand gave......