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Sour Grapes

David Levy Beyond Reason Margaret Trudeau (Paddington £5.50) If it was the German philosophers who dived the deepest and came up the mud diest, the errant wife of the Canadian......

Calamities

Elisabeth Whipp London Pride: The Story of the London Hospital A. E. Clark-Kennedy (Hutchinson Benham £3.50) The winter of 1740 was appalling. The Thames froze over. In the East......