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The Index Man

Humphrey Carpenter Gilbert Murray: A Life Francis West (Croom Helm £17.95) p rofessor Gilbert Murray ought to be in Alan Bennett's Forty Years On, as one of those figures (like......

Bottom Rung

Christopher Hawtree The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera (Faber & Faber £9.50) Granta Edited by William Buford (Penguin £3.95) ehind this most off-putting of titles......