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The Facetious In Pursuit Of The Fictitious

Julie Burchill BLOOMSBURY GUIDE TO GOOD MANNERS by Nigel Rees Bloomsbury, £9.99, pp. 360 T he title, Bloomsbury Guide to Good Manners, is immediately intriguing. Quite what sort......

The Art Of The Miniature

D. J. Taylor BEST SHORT STORIES 1993 edited by Giles Gordon and David Hughes Heinemann, £15.99, pp. 373 T hough one could do worse than end up on a desert island with the......

Avant Lui Le Deluge

M. R. D. Foot DE GAULLE AND ALGERIA, 1940-1960 by Michael Kettle Quartet, £45, pp. 666 T his enormous book is most of it devot- ed to three years of Algerian history, from 1958......