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Making It A Just So Story

Stephen Abell LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF STORIES by A. S. Byatt Chatto, £12, pp. 279, ISBN 0701173246 T his new collection is, surprisingly for a little black book, decidedly unsexy.......

Sexing Up American History

Harry Mount INVENTING A NATION: WASHINGTON, ADAMS, JEFFERSON by Gore Vidal Yale, £14.95, pp. 198, ISBN 0300101716 T his lovely little bluffers' guide to the founders of the......