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A Portrait Talks Back

Robert S. C. Gordon SPEAK YOU ALSO by Paul Steinberg, translated by Linda Coverdale with Bill Ford Allen Lane' Penguin, £9.99, pp. 176, ISBN 0713995408 L ike Philip Roth in The......

Not A Very Merry Monarch

Jonathan Sumption IN THE LION'S COURT: POWER, AMBITION AND SUDDEN DEATH IN THE COURT OF HENRY VIII by Derek Wilson Hutchinson, £20, pp. 590, ISBN 0091801184590 I t is hard to be......