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Escaping The Throne, Finding The Guillotine

Mark Archer PAINTING AND SCULPTURE IN FRANCE 1700-1789 by Michael Levey Yale University Press, £44, pp. 318 A yone who has read Sir Michael Levey's earlier books or who saw the......

From Cambridge To St Petersburg

Harriet Waugh DEAD MEAT by Philip Kerr Chatto and Windus, 174.99, pp.243 A PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION by Philip Kerr Arrow, £4.95, pp.36I D ead Meat is Philip Kerr's fifth......