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The Lines Are Immaterial

Jane Gardam BYRON: LIFE AND LEGEND by Fiona MacCarthy John Murray, £25, pp. 674, ISBN 071955621X I once met a thoroughly heterosexual old naval officer who had been a midshipman......

Stooping To Conquer

Ian Thomson NOBODY'S PERFECT by Anthony Lane Picador, £15.99. pp. 752, ISBN 0330491822 A nthony Lane has been film critic for the New Yorker since 1993, and the light lash of......