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When The Saints Go Marching In Again

Caroline Moore LIVE FROM GOLGOTHA by Gore Vidal Deutsch, £14.99, pp. 232 L ive from Golgotha is like an amalgam of Life of Brian with Star Trek — one of those lime-warp'......

Po-faced In Polynesia

Hilary Corke THE HAPPY ISLES OF OCEANIA by Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton, £16.99, pp. 545 TRANSIT OF VENUS by Julian Evans Secker & Warburg, £16.99, pp. 277 I do not think I......