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Truthful Impostor

John de Falbe LOVING MONSTERS by James Hamilton-Paterson Granta, £15.99. pp. 308, ISBN 1862074259 I t is a tribute to the power of Loving Monsters that, on finishing it, I......

Quick Change Artist

Julian Mitchell THE MAN WHO WAS DORIAN GRAY by Jerusha Hull McCormack Pa(grave, £16.99, pp. 353, ISBN 0333961048 A year after Oscar Wilde went to prison, Andre Raffalovich......

Not Downhill All The Way

Jane Gardam THE VOICE OF VICTORIAN SEX by Rupert Christiansen Short Books, .i4.99, pp. 96, ISBN 0571208150 I n a series called 'Short Lives', here is Arthur Hugh Clough in a......