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Books

The first place to look Philip Hensher T he huge encyclopaedias which describe all the manifestation of a single cultural fact were a 19th-century phenomenon, and they have......

Beefing Up The Bible

Elisa Segrave ONLY HUMAN by Jenny Diski Virago, £14.99, pp. 215 ACCORDING TO MARY: THE LIFE OF MARY MAGDALENE by Marianne Fredriksson, translated by Joan Tate Orion, £16.99, pp.......