29 NOVEMBER 2008, page 48

Chalk And Cheese

Raymond Carr T HE B RITISH IN F RANCE : V ISITORS AND R ESIDENTS SINCE THE R EVOLUTION by Peter Thorold Continuum, £30, pp. 273, ISBN 9781847252340 ✆ £24 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870......

Highs And Lows On The Laughometer

Bevis Hillier W hat might seem an obviously Christmassy book is Robin Laurance’s Just What I Always Wanted: Unwrapping the World’s Most Curious Presents (Quercus, £9.99); but it......