27 JANUARY 2001, page 49

The Fault Is In Our Stars, Dear Brutus

Ann Geneva TRUE AS THE STARS ABOVE by Neil Spencer Gollancz, £10.99, pp. 246 A ll obscure corner of academia has come up with a wheeze for explaining the genesis of world......

The Man About Whom Still More Remains To Be Said

Ian Ousby THE HITLER OF HISTORY: HITLER'S BIOGRAPHERS ON TRIAL by John Lukacs Weidenfeld .E25, pp. 279 A nybody who takes a serious interest in the history of the second world......

Beneath The Surface

First an aerial photo. This might be the site. Then a JCB, clanking, heaps topsoil and stone. Spadework and sieving bring artefacts up to the light. Like lucky phrases, pottery......