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Books

'Roots' and the Sunday Time Richard West Roots Alex Haley (Hutchinson £5.95) As long ago as the mid-eighteenth century, a Negro slave from North America who had been given his......

Gay Dogs

Robert Skidelsky Homosexuals in History: A Study of Ambivalence in Society, Literature and the Arts A. L. Rowse (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £7.95). Many exceptional people have......