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Grand Old Amanuensis

Jane Ridley MARY GLADSTONE: A GENTLE REBEL by Shelia Gooddie Wiley, £16.99, pp. 257, ISBN 0470854235 p rime ministers' families are interesting subjects for biography, and the......

From Labyrinth To Trailer Park

Sam Leith THE MINOTAUR TAKES A CIGARETTE BREAK by Steven Sherrill Canongate, £12.99, pp. 320, ISBN 1841953989 W hat if, millennia ago, the Minotaur escaped Knossos alive? What......