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Having Things Both Ways

John Bayley NATASHA'S DANCE by Orlando Figes Penguin, £25, pp. 728, ISBN 0713995173 I t all comes out of War and Peace? Well, Tolstoy makes a good starting-point anyway for such......

The Unvarnished Picture

Hugh Massingberd 'THE UNEXPURGATED BEATON introduced by Hugo Vickers Weidenfeki, £25, pp. 418. ISBN 0297645994 W hat-ho,' says an Excess sub-editor appreciatively as Simon......