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Talking To Some Purpose

Jane Ridley REFORM! THE FIGHT FOR THE 1832 REFORM ACT by Edward Pearce Cape. £20, pp. 343, ISBN 0224061992 N ineteenth-century British politics used to be the historian's bread......

A Bas La Difference!

Zenga Longmore DEAD SEXY by Kathy Lette Simon & Schuster,114.99, pp. 341, ISBN 074324804X K. athy Lette's latest novel begins with a zany one-liner: 'How can we win the sex war......