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Harmony Triumphantly Achieved

Francis King A LIFE'S MUSIC by Andrei Makine Sceptre, £12.99, pp. 106, ISBN 034082008X L ike most human beings, most novelists arc neither outstandingly good nor outstandingly......

Screaming With Laughter

Katie Grant HOW DO YOU WANT ME? by Ruby Wax Ebury, £17.99, pp. 320, ISBN 0091886627 I f Ruby Wax's shrink thinks she has cured her, this book will put her right. Readers will be......

Through Whiggish Spectacles

Theodore Dalrymple BLOOD AND GUTS: A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDICINE by Roy Porter Allen Lane, £12.99, pp. 185, ISBN 0713996692 T he distillation of a vast quantity of historical......