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Politically Most Incorrect

Michael Coren THE HISTORY OF MR WELLS by Michael Foot Doubleday, £20, pp. 317 T here is an anecdote concerning H. G. Wells that speaks volumes about the man and chapters about......

The Elephant Man

James Michie HANNIBAL by Ross Leckie Canongate, f14.99, pp. 245 C arthage and Hannibal have always exerted a strange fascination: Turner paint- ed the city's history and legends......