29 NOVEMBER 1997, page 54

Magic In Two Colours

Liliana Brisby PRAGUE IN BLACK AND GOLD: THE HISTORY OF A CITY by Peter Demetz Allen Lane, £20, pp. 411 I t is unreasonable to expect that more than a handful of the millions of......

An Important But Invisible Man

Christopher Hope NELSON MANDELA by Martin Meredith Hamish Hamilton, £20, pp. 596 T he life of Nelson Mandela is, in many senses, a mystery. But he has the effect of making......