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All Under The Influence

Philip Hensher THOMAS AND JANE CARLYLE: PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE by Rosemary Ashton Chatto, £25, pp. 548, ISBN 00701167092 E ven Carlyle's contemporaries occasionally suspected......

The Naming Of Parts

Vicki Woods FAME FATALE by Wendy Holden Headline, £10, pp. 378, ISBN 0747272514 THE NEW YOU SURVIVAL KIT by Daisy Waugh HarperCollins, L.5.99, pp. 293, ISBN 0007119062 T he more......

The Guy Who Does The Music For Porn Films

As Christmas carol discs are cut in June And pantomimes are written in July, So those who forge seasons are out of tune With seasons in themselves, and thus am I. When lipstick......